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Data entry Oeative Strategies Internationa/, Sun/ose, USA (1978)60pp, $695 The US data-entry industry, with 1977 sales of $1700 million, will show revenues exceeding $2000 million by 1982, according to this market analysis. The report examines the US market for data-entry equipment through to ] 982, and targets six segments for intensive analysis: keypunch, key-to-storage, OCR (optical character recognition) equipment, general-purpose terminals, portable data-entr.v equipment and factory input devices. The study also discusses the future ol automatic speech-recognition equipment, which CSI predicts will show only modest growth by 19142.
While traditional keypunch machines will continue to be used, th~ market for keypunch and key-to-storage equipment will decline at 3.4% per annum, compounded annually, to 1982, predicts CSI. l-wo segments will experience substantial growth over the next five years: portable data-entry equipment and optical character readers. Because of the trend toward source data collection, portable data-entry equipment (offline battery-powered terminals able to transmit data to a central computer) will lead all segments of the industry with a compound annual growth rate of 29% to 1982. The OCR segment, spurred by
Lecture notes in computer science. Vol 60 Operating systems an advanced course G Goos and / Hurtmanis (£ds) Springer-Verlag KG, Berlin, FDR (I 9 78) .593pp, $22.50 1-his text contains the lecture notes (reprinted directly from typed scripts) taken hom an advanced course on operating systems held in 1977 and ]978 at the l-ethnical University of Munich. Previous knowledge of operating ~,istems is assumed, and the authors take into account decreasing hardware coqs and emerging results from computer science.
In the first part of the book, A K Jones of Carnegie-Mellon University explains the uses of an object model for structuring software. M J Flynn of Stanford University then discusses computer organization and architecture. In the second part, J H Saltzer of MIT introduces the concept of naming and binding objects and explores their applicability to architectures and filing systems. This is followed by a discussion of kernel design by O J Popek and C S Kline of UCLA.
European electronics companies yearbook 1 9 7 8 Mac kinlosh Publications Limited, Luton, UK (1978) £18 Fhe Mackintosh companies yearbook 1978 identifies the 50 largest firms manufacturing electronics products in Europe and examines their product sales and financial performance over
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the last five or ten years. Their total electronics turnover approaches $50000 million. This compares with current estimates of total worldwide electronics production, put between $100000 -$I 50000 million, indicating that the companies account for a sizeable proportion of world
increased sales of low-priced page readers and hand-held wands, is expected to achieve a rate of growth exceeding 16%, compounded annually, over the next five years. Various developments in the field point to considerable growth potential for a few OCR companies during the next half decade. Several definite trends are emerging in the data-entry industry relating to system configurations: there is significant movement toward general-purpose integrated systems with intelligent terminals; parts of the industry are moving toward specialized functions such as factory input and hand-held optical scanning equipment; and some users are demanding mixed-media systems which combine the flexibility of special-purpose systems with the computing power available with terminals.
Security aspects and protection mechanisms are dealt with by A K Jones, synchronization in a layered system by K Lagally of Universitat Stuttgart, and achieving high reliability by B Randell of Newcastle University. H Opderbeck of Telenet Communications Corporation describes interfaces and protocol characteristics for network operation, and this is followed by Popek and Kline wit[ design issues for secure working. The last section deals with problem areas and the future outlook. H R Wiehle (Hochschule der Bundeswehr Munchen) deals with system specification, and J H Saltzer with the problems of decentralized systems containing largely autonomous nodes.
output. An appendix relates some 2 000 subsidiary companies to their parent organizations. Altogether 13 American companies, 11 British, 7 German and 6 French companies are large enough to be included in the analysis, which covers manufacturers of military and professional electronics equipment, consumer goods, computers and electronic office equipment, and active, passive and audio components.
microprocessors and microsystems
While traditional keypunch machines will continue to be used, th~ market for keypunch and key-to-storage equipment will decline at 3.4% per annum, compounded annually, to 1982, predicts CSI. l-wo segments will experience substantial growth over the next five years: portable data-entry equipment and optical character readers. Because of the trend toward source data collection, portable data-entry equipment (offline battery-powered terminals able to transmit data to a central computer) will lead all segments of the industry with a compound annual growth rate of 29% to 1982. The OCR segment, spurred by
Lecture notes in computer science. Vol 60 Operating systems an advanced course G Goos and / Hurtmanis (£ds) Springer-Verlag KG, Berlin, FDR (I 9 78) .593pp, $22.50 1-his text contains the lecture notes (reprinted directly from typed scripts) taken hom an advanced course on operating systems held in 1977 and ]978 at the l-ethnical University of Munich. Previous knowledge of operating ~,istems is assumed, and the authors take into account decreasing hardware coqs and emerging results from computer science.
In the first part of the book, A K Jones of Carnegie-Mellon University explains the uses of an object model for structuring software. M J Flynn of Stanford University then discusses computer organization and architecture. In the second part, J H Saltzer of MIT introduces the concept of naming and binding objects and explores their applicability to architectures and filing systems. This is followed by a discussion of kernel design by O J Popek and C S Kline of UCLA.
European electronics companies yearbook 1 9 7 8 Mac kinlosh Publications Limited, Luton, UK (1978) £18 Fhe Mackintosh companies yearbook 1978 identifies the 50 largest firms manufacturing electronics products in Europe and examines their product sales and financial performance over
3(~2
the last five or ten years. Their total electronics turnover approaches $50000 million. This compares with current estimates of total worldwide electronics production, put between $100000 -$I 50000 million, indicating that the companies account for a sizeable proportion of world
increased sales of low-priced page readers and hand-held wands, is expected to achieve a rate of growth exceeding 16%, compounded annually, over the next five years. Various developments in the field point to considerable growth potential for a few OCR companies during the next half decade. Several definite trends are emerging in the data-entry industry relating to system configurations: there is significant movement toward general-purpose integrated systems with intelligent terminals; parts of the industry are moving toward specialized functions such as factory input and hand-held optical scanning equipment; and some users are demanding mixed-media systems which combine the flexibility of special-purpose systems with the computing power available with terminals.
Security aspects and protection mechanisms are dealt with by A K Jones, synchronization in a layered system by K Lagally of Universitat Stuttgart, and achieving high reliability by B Randell of Newcastle University. H Opderbeck of Telenet Communications Corporation describes interfaces and protocol characteristics for network operation, and this is followed by Popek and Kline wit[ design issues for secure working. The last section deals with problem areas and the future outlook. H R Wiehle (Hochschule der Bundeswehr Munchen) deals with system specification, and J H Saltzer with the problems of decentralized systems containing largely autonomous nodes.
output. An appendix relates some 2 000 subsidiary companies to their parent organizations. Altogether 13 American companies, 11 British, 7 German and 6 French companies are large enough to be included in the analysis, which covers manufacturers of military and professional electronics equipment, consumer goods, computers and electronic office equipment, and active, passive and audio components.
microprocessors and microsystems