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- Subject: ICR Presents a Technical Presentation on "AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update", on Tuesday, November 24, 1992, at 10:30 am in DC 1302.
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- Keywords: Presenters: Mr. Joseph Potworka and Mr. Jim Davey, IBM Canada Ltd.
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:44:34 GMT
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- The University of Waterloo
- 200 University Avenue
- Waterloo, Ontario
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- The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)
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- Presents a Technical Presentation on
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- AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update
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- Presenters: Mr. Joseph Potworka
- AIX Technical Workstation Specialist
- IBM Canada Ltd.
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- Mr. Jim Davey
- AIX Technical Support Specialist
- IBM Canada Ltd.
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- Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1992
- Time: 10:30 a.m.
- Place: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302
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- ABSTRACT
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- IBM's RISC System/6000 family of technical workstations continu-
- ously leads in reliability and price/performance. Recently IBM
- announced new models, more upgrade paths, more supported devices
- and a strong leadership in the 'Open Systems' marketplace. New
- software products announcements lead the way for research and
- system management areas with new enhancements to the IBM AIX XL C
- ++ compiler, selected Fortran 90 functions for the XL Fortran
- Compiler and new products such as UNITREE for file server
- enhancements. This latest set of announcements also include the
- Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Base services and the En-
- cina product family as the first vendor with products in the dis-
- tributed computing environment.
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- IBM Canada will be providing a presentation/discussion on the la-
- test enhancements to the RISC System/6000 product family. The
- agenda will include a brief summary on the latest announcements
- and an in-depth presentation on the OSF DCE strategy. The DCE
- presentation will include base services, the Encina product fami-
- ly and a Transaction Processing strategy.
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- Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.
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