National Software Works.

Abstract

The National Software Works (NSW) is a facility, resident on the ARPANET, intended to support the construction, use, maintenance, modification, verification, and storage of programs and bodies of information on which these programs operate. It is principally aimed at the construction of programs and at providing software tools which can be used in the construction activity. NSW is intended to facilitate both the administrative and technical aspects of these activities. Thus, it provides mechanisms for the exercise of fiscal and access control in the operation of a programming project, and also access and storage coveniences to programmers for the management of their files. The salient factor in the conception of NSW is the expectation that the hardware, software and human resources needed for the execution of a task may be geographically and administratively dispersed, although connected through the network. Tools whose use is to be coordinated may be resident at different computer installations, possible under the control of different organizations, each with its own rules of operation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA034133

Entities

People

  • Robert Millstein

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Application Software
  • Authentication
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Identification
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.