IBM Selects Concurrent DOS-286TM for PC at Retail System
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[rn~~~q~~~~~&g~j~Cq:~A A EUROPEAN MARCH 1986 ISSUE NO:18 CeBIT- 12. - 19. MARZ Stand 1023, HALLE 16 IBM selects Concurrent DOS-286TM for PC AT retail system BM's new Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS)system includes I the Personal Computer AT as Store Controller and a programmable EPOS cash register terminal likewise based on the Intel 80286 central processing unit. In both terminal and Store Controller, the IBM 4680 Store System uses the power of Digital Research's Concurrent DOS-286, the new generation real time multi-user, multitasking, operating system which operates in the full protected mode of the Intel 80286 microproc~ssor. European pilot by UK pharmacy chain At a February press conference held jointly with IBM in London, Boots plc, the leading UK retail n ha rmg~a_n~d,ornes t ic goods- chain, revealed that the first 4680 Store System site in Europe will be a pilot installation at its Peterborough store. Boots expects to introduce 4680 systems into 170 of its major stores within the next three years. IBM is a leading player in the Response ofIBM's new PC AT based Store System depends on real time capability of Concurrent DOS-286rM retail systems field, and the IBM credit authorisation, 4680 Store System is designed to classification of items and synchronous and asynchronous I provide the flexibility and returns, plus back office are supported by the 4680 versatility to address a variety of functions such as price and operating system, allowing data I Olivetti and Cornart get own vertical markets. description changes, sales refresh and remote ~rocessinnbv -. host mainframes atcompany ' The system's EPOS terminal analysis by item, department or level. has a modular design with system operator and store accounting I versions of GEMMsoftware unit, keyboard, visual display, reports. Thanks to concurrent The 4680 operating system is processing by the Concurrent menu driven and store personnel Olivetti, second only to IBM in will supply the GEM cash drawer and a printer as the personal computer market CollectionTM(GEM DesktopTM required. Data capture devices DOS-286 real time kernel within need no data processing the 4680 operating system, local place worldwide, has signed a GEM PaintTMand GEM writeTh), which may be connected include experience. applications may be run at the PC - . f 500,000 licensing anreement and GEM GraphTM,GEM DrawTM scales, a magnetic stripe card In addition it permits fast AT Store Controller without with~i~ital~eseirclh to supply and GEM wo;dchartTM. reader, an OCR wand and a laser development of retailer-specific the latter's GEM business interrupting its vital real time applications written in IBM 4680 Comart, a leading UK supplier scanner for fast reading of item dialogue with the EPOS presentation software in of multi-user workstations has information from bar codes on BASIC, a powerful new terminals. implementations for its personal also announced the availability of packages. implementation based on Digital computer range. A special driver The 4680 operating system is Research's CBasic CompilerTM, GEM software running under Boots already makes extensive is included to support Olivetti's ConcurrentTMDOS 4.1 on its use of the ~uropeanArticle based on Concurrent DOS-286 LINK-8 6TMand LIB-86TM.The Enhanced Graphics Controller, and this provides the system link operating system also allows the 80 186-based WS 20,30 and 40 Numbering System in bar-coding . which provides 640 x 400 pixel machines. with mainframe computers. PC AT Store Controller to run resolution in 16 colours. Olivetti Two versions of the EPOS Multiple communications well-behaved IBM DOS terminal exist: the fully protocols including SNA, binary applications. proflammable Model 1, with 1 I MbGte of RAM and the ' I I ,, - a an/ concurrent DOS-286 based operating software, and the I Hanover Fair '86 ~odel2slave terminal which is Major Features driven by a Model 1. Up to 64 Important announcements by versions of Amstrad's machines Model 1 and a further 64 Model 2 Modular construction Device independent file Digital Research OEM clients and and for the Commodore C 128. terminals may be linked to the makes for easy operations third party GEMTMsoftware GEM software is shown running PC AT Store Controller in a single reconfiguration Developed specifically for developers are made this year at on Siemens' new PC-D personal store network. Real time, device applications requiring real CeBIT, the annual exhibition in computer, on the Olivetti M24 independent, multi- time response, including Hanover, West Germany for the and Tandy 2000 and on the new Application and user/preemptive EPOS, EFT-POS, process European IT industry. Atari ST machines which are multitasking kernel control, manufacturing, ConcurrentTMDOS 4.1 is selling in large volume in the system software multi-user desktop introduced by Triumph Adler and West German market. Dealers on Store Controller and EPOS Exploits integral memory protection and task computers and Nixdorf; a GEM application and a the Philips stand demonstrate terminal functions are provided communications control GEM accessory are launched by DOS PlusTMand GEM on the :YES in the 4680 package by the switching circuitry of These features are also German developers on the Digital machine, and there's more.. General Sales Application 80286 available in Concurrent Research stand. Germany's Program (GSAP), which is 16 Mbyte address space in Markt & Technik releases Digital Further details on page 2 written in IBM 4680 BASIC. protected mode DOS-68KTMfor 68000 configurations Research 8-bit CP/M@software GSAP includes price look up, DOS and CP/M@frontends for Schneider Data Systems' GEMTM,DOS PlusTM, ConcurrentTMDOS and CP/M" are major features of CeBIT eBIT is a showcase for new GEM software products as well as: DOS Plus; the latest releases of C Concurrent DOS; and 8-bit CP/MB, on the Digital- . Research stand and elsewhere: kdorf8810: compact Concurrent DOS machine written in virtually any high level Nixdorf exhibits its own port of mirdparty language for the IBM PC range Concurrent DOS, running on its GEM software and compatibles. compact new 80 186based multi- CCP FontEdit by CCP Software user personal computer, the provides additional fonts for use GEM and OEMs 8810. The new machine is in Digital Research GEM intended as a central computer business presentation software. Siemens is showing GEM on its for individual small businesses Type sizes up to 99 X 99 pixels are new PC-D machine. This is an and currently supports a single supported. The fonts supplied are 80186 based, 256 Kbyte machine, slave terminal. The system's Pica, Swiss Outline and Rustica, expandable to 1 Mbyte. central processor circuitry is and a library of new, low cost compactly housed in the main fonts is under development. The Olivetti and Tandy also monitor casing, while peripherals user can design or edit fonts demonstrate Digital Research are daisychained from a SASI bus. interactively using mouse and GEM software, respectively on icons. Proportional spacing and the Olivetti M24 and the Tandy AST Europe demonstrates zoom functions assist in the 2000. Concurrent DOS 5.0 supporting precise sizing of letters. CCP its 2 Mbyte RAMpage! memory FontEdit is available in English Atari has sold over 40,000 of its extension board. This latest and German, and Dutch and GEM based ST business/home developmental version of French versions are scheduled. computers in West Germany Concurrent DOS enables up to 4 since August 1985. Based on the RAMpage! boards to be connected Other GEM applications by CCP CCP FontEdit expands GEM^^ text styles Software include: Busy Charts 2, Motorola 68000 CPU and to the IBM PC range and a graphing package; Busy Calc, a proprietary system software compatibles, creating a DOS spreadsheet; and CCP Turbo derived from Digital Research's compatible environment with up Tools, which adds graphics power GEM DOSTMsingle user operating to 8 Mbyte paged memory for under GEM or GSXTM to the Turbo system, STs are popular amongst programs and data of virtually Pascal environment. These may software houses for porting GEM any length. In addition, AST also use fonts generated by CCP applications from DOS to the shows GEM software operating in FontEdit. CCP Software 68000 world, as well as for conjunction with its ColorGraph EntwicklungsGmbH, developing original GEM Plus graphics adaptor board. Wilhelmstrasse 43, Marburg applications. The Atari stand houses 30 software developers, 3.550,West Germany. Tel. + 49 64 21 12104 with over 100 products, including wordprocessing, databases and Schneider Data Systems markets spreadsheets and a wide variety of the phenomenally successful Termin Calendar is a new GEM vertical market applications. Amstrad range of 8-bit 2-80 accessory by EDTZ. Click on the Machines on show are the 260ST home/small business CP/M Calendar entry in the GEM with 512 Kbyte RAM, the computers under the Schneider application dropdown menu and 520ST + with 1 Mbyte, and the trademark in German speaking a one-month calendar appears in 1040STFwith 1Mbyte memory countries. The range comprises its own window. Clicking on any and an integral floppy disk. the 64 Kbyte Schneider CPC464 date brings up a schedule for that and CPC664, the 128 Kbyte day, broken down into time h ..-... - - -- v CPC6128 and also the periods as specified by the user. wordprocessor and 256 Kbyte Termin Calendar, an invaluable dlaryaccessorv for GEMT'.' DOS Plus and GEM Text and alarm times may be On the Philips stand, a number of computer, the PCW8256, renamed Joyce by Schneider. inserted, and there is a notepad :YES machines are dedicated to for other items. Termin Calendar applications running under Schneider is bundling CP/M 2.2 with the 64 Kbyte machines, and is suitable for dates up to the year Digital Research's entry level 9999; the only restriction on CP/M PlusTM,the most advanced DOS Plus operating system, personal computing version of quantity of data stored is the including GEM software.