Subject: CND-Global, July 25

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 23:23:35 -0500

C h i n a  N e w s  D i g e s t

                        (News Global)

                    Thursday,  July 25, 1991

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5. China Opens First Open, Cooperative Computer Network.............28
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From: "HUIJIE CHEN" <[email-masked]>
Source: PRNewswire

  DAYTON, Ohio --  NCR (NYSE: NCR) computers are being used by China's
leading technical university to implement the country's first Open,
Cooperative Computing network which links computers from six vendors
into a resource and information-sharing, open systems network.

  Using client/server principles of NCR's Open, Cooperative Computing
Architecture (OCCA), two NCR TOWER 32/600 multi-user computers are at
the center of Qinghua University's UNIX-based network.  It is the first
known implementation of Open, Cooperative Computing in China.

  The TOWERs use the TCP/IP protocol to link large multi-vendor
computers as well as personal computers together.  The TOWER systems
act as both clients of the large computers and servers for the PCs in
the network.

  Multiple concurrent sessions are supported by NCRNet software, which
provides a consistent user interface across all platforms and
applications, with a separate screen window for each session.

  In addition to supporting the cooperative computing network at
Qinghua, the NCR TOWERs are used for UNIX and C programming language
courses. The university has an NCR TOWER demonstration center and also
provides software training courses on the TOWERs for NCR customers in
China.

  NCR Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, develops
manufactures, markets, supports and services enterprise-wide
information systems for worldwide markets.