Sharing Command Languages and Software,
Abstract
QUESTEL-PLUS is the new product developed by TELESYSTEMES in colaboration with INFORMATECH (Canada). The need for a portable retrieval software initially occurred in a network environment with different computers, especially for INFORMATECH (portability on IBM) and for CEDOCAR, the French Centre de Documentation de l'Armement (portability on Honeywell Bull - DPS 7 hardware). QUESTEL PLUS is actually developed today on an IBM mainframe and is installed on IBM (4341-2, 8 Mbytes main memory, 25 Gbytes disc drives, 3081 and is to be implemented soon on DPS 7/82, 8 Mybtes, 20 Gbytes disc drives). The first results are very encouraging, especially concerning the efficiency of the package. This should demonstrate that it is feasible to have a portable system open to distributed techniques, multilingual access, able to manage very large data bases (several million documents in a data base, several indexes of several million terms each, up to 250 different labelled fields in a document, up to 250 paragraphs in a field, up to 250 sentences in a paragraph, up to 250 words in a sentence). It is important when the concepts of gateway, Videotex and host are converging, to have the basic tools ready for upgrading information delivery.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADP003093
Entities
People
- P. Buffet