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6 unusual facts about International Computers Limited


ALGOL 68RS

Martyn Thomas of SWURCC arranged that this system be sponsored by ICL and sold as an official ICL product.

Boldon James

Originally, Boldon James specialised in Information Processing Architecture (IPA) networking solutions for interworking with International Computers Limited (ICL) systems, with offices in Congleton and Alsager.

ICL Direct Machine Environment

Direct Machine Environment, abbreviated DME, was a mainframe environment for the ICL 2900 Series of computing systems from International Computers Limited that was developed in the 1970s.

Peter G. Gyarmati

After their earlier work with Ferranti, then the successor ICL, in Manchester University he joined for research to IBM from 1972 until 1981, working in Poughkeepsie, Yorktown, New York, and the Delft University, the Netherlands.

Three Rivers Computer Corporation

From 1981 onwards, 3RCC developed and produced the PERQ jointly with ICL in the United Kingdom.

TME

TME, Transaction Machine Environment, a defunct computer operating system made by International Computers Limited (ICL)


International Computers and Tabulators

Humphreys, a former managing director of ICL, reviews the history of the British computer industry, including the merger in 1959 of British Tabulating and the Powers Samas companies into International Computers and Tabulators, Ltd. (ICT), and the merger in 1968 of English Electric Computers Limited and ICT into ICL.

National champions

The risk involved with such policies is exemplified by the unsuccessful challenges to IBM’s dominance of the computer market by UK’s ICL,  France’s Bull,  and  Italy’s Olivetti during the 1970s.

Workflow Management Coalition

It was founded in May 1993 as an offshoot of the Black Forest Group with original members including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, ICL, Staffware and approximately 300 software and services firms in the business software sector.


see also

CAFS

Content Addressable File Store, a hardware device developed by International Computers Limited that provided a disk storage with built-in search capability