COMPUTER CONTROL OF SHIPS WORKED OUT

Some details are given for the Bailey 855/25 process industry computer, which features a multiprocessing, time-sharing design as opposed to an event-oriented software concept. The design is based on eight separate functional computers that allow highly reliable on-line process control or monitoring, simultaneously with debugging of new programs, man/machine and peripheral communications, and many other activities.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/07325460
• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  30 Church Street
  New York, NY  United States  10007
• Publication Date: 1970-4

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 86-87
• Serial:
  • Marine Engineering/Log
  • Volume: 75
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp.
  • ISSN: 0732-5460

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Digital computers; Human machine systems; Voyage management systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Digital systems; Man machine communications
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00015034
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 7 1973 12:00AM