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OfficeVision started as a product for the VM operating system named PROFS (for PRofessional OFfice System) and was initially made available in 1981. [1] Before that it was just a PRPQ (Programming Request for Price Quotation), [2]: 321 an IBM administrative term for non-standard software offerings with unique features, support and pricing.
IBM Distributed Office Support System, or DISOSS is a centralized document distribution and filing application for IBM's mainframe computers running the MVS and VSE operating systems. DISOSS runs under both the CICS transaction processing system and the IMS/DS transaction processing system, and later versions use the SNADS architecture of peer ...
"A similar fate awaits IBM’s Profs and DisOSS mainframe systems; post-September 1990, Profs will become OfficeVision/VM, and DisOSS OfficeVision/MVS, both similarly equipped with iconic interfaces – it is what is known as conversion by stealth." It's saying that PROFS and DISOSS were separate products, but that their destiny was somehow linked.
IBM originally intended to deliver the Workplace Shell as part of the OfficeVision/2 LAN product, but in 1991 announced plans to release it as part of OS/2 2.0 instead. [1] Although mostly written in C, under the covers the Workplace Shell is implemented as an object-oriented class library, basing on the System Object Model (SOM).
Visi On (also known as VisiOn) is an operating environment for IBM PCs and compatibles running DOS, developed by VisiCorp and released in December 1983. Visi On was the first piece of software with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the IBM PC platform. [1]
In a White House ceremony in 1985, Bob Evans and his colleagues, Fred Brooks (responsible for System/360 architecture and design) and Erich Bloch (responsible for System/360 technology) received the National Medal of Technology “for their contributions to […] the IBM System/360, a computer system and technologies which revolutionized the data processing industry.” [6]
Revisable-Form Text (abbreviated RFT or RFT-DCA) is part of DCA.It is sometimes referred to as Revisable Format Text.It was used by IBM DisplayWriter 4 and 5 word processors on System/360 and 370 mainframe computers, and OfficeVision/400 to allow transfer of formatted documents to other systems.
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