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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 27 , Issue 7 (July 1984) table of contents

Pages: 650 - 665

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0001-0782

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David Gifford
Alfred Spector

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Where can you find a solid, forthright overview of the computer systems and management behind airline reservations? NASA's space shuttle? Or any of the multitude of other large computer systems that support important projects or national activities? It's hard, sometimes impossible: partly because the people who worked on such systems often do not have the time to write about their experiences: and partly because many professional journalists who interview these people do not have the technical background to ferret out answers to the fundamental design questions addressed in these systems.

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	1	IBM Corporation. ACP system: Concepts and facilities. Order No, GH20- 1473-1. White Plains. New York, Mar. 1975. A detailed examination of the facilities and implementation of ACP.
	2	IBM Corporation. ACP system: Message routing concepts. Order No. GH20-1693-0. White Plains, New York, May 1975. Describes the way that messages can be routed between ACP systems and how terminals can be shared by ACP and another operating system.
	3	Knight. I.R. A case study: Airlines reservations systems. Proc. IEEE 60, 11 (Nov. 1972). 1423-1431. Reviews the development of early systems and discusses the early evolution of reservation systems in the 1960s.
	4	McAvoy. R.A. Airline reservation system, Datamation 3, 8 (Oct.-Nov. 1957), 9-14. A look at the requirements and design of an early on-line system for Eastern Airlines. The system was designed to service 125 terminals for 22 hours a day.
	5	Perry. M.N.. and Plugge. W.R. American Airlines SABER electronic reservation system. In AFIPS Conference Proceedings. Western Joint Computer Conference. vol. 19. AFIPS Press, Arlington, Va., May 1961, pp. 593-601.
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