RIG, Rochester´s Intelligent Gateway: System Overview

Author

Ball, J. Eugene ; Feldman, Jerome ; Low, James R. ; Rashid, Richard ; Rovner, Paul

Author_Institution

Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester

Issue

4

fYear

1976

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

328

Abstract

Rochester´s Intelligent Gateway (RIG) system provides convenient access to a wide range of computing facilities. The system includes five large minicomputers in a very fast internal network, disk and tape storage, a printer/plotter and a number of display terminals. These are connected to larger campus machines (IBM 360/65 and DEC KL10) and to the ARPANET. The operating system and other software support for such a system present some interesting design problems. This paper contains a high-level technical discussion of the software designs, many of which will be treated in more detail in subsequent reports.

Keywords

Distributed processing; gateway computer; interactive computing; interprocess communication; minicomputers; multiprogramming; operating systems; resource sharing; ARPANET; Computer networks; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Machine intelligence; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Printers; Software systems; Distributed processing; gateway computer; interactive computing; interprocess communication; minicomputers; multiprogramming; operating systems; resource sharing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSE.1976.229890

Filename

1702389