GSA's 47-node network more than doubled in size last year, so GSA increased network speed and reliability with 10-Mb/s fiber links; boosted uptime by retooling from bus to star topology; and added multi-user capabilities by swapping a Lotus-based application for a database in a
DOS environment.
Now that OS/2 is turning out to be a hard product to sell, developers of oversized applications are taking a fresh look at ways to stretch the limits of the basic
DOS environment.
Approximately half of the personal computer workstations were selected for public use, operating in a
DOS environment using Saber menuing software.
West's Legal Directory Attorney Library is accessible through West's PREMISE Research Software for the
DOS environment. This software provides researchers with familiar WESTLAW search syntax, sentence and paragraph connectors for word searches, automatic equivalencies and plurals, and field searching.
* Operate in the
DOS environment on IBM-compatible personal computers.
SyncMail, developed by Sync Data of Hyattsville, Md., is capable of running in any
DOS environment, including that of "obsolete" IBM-XT-compatible systems (pre-286 machines), while still retaining all its capabilities.
"So we're showing different windowing environments as well as the UNIX
DOS environment, the VMS, all different kinds of environments within this particular configuration," she added.