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System Development Corporation: Defining the Factory Challenge
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The new company required increasing numbers of programmers to build sage and then a variety of other projects, and expanded from about 450 employees in 1956 to 3500 by For example, after completing sage by the late 19505, sdc designed a command-control system for the u.s. Strategic Air Command, saccs (sac Command and Control). The operating system alone, which ran on an ibm mainframe, exceeded 3 million lines of code, an astounding length for a program at that time.6 soc then went on during the 19605 to build other complex software systems for the u.s. Government to handle air defense and communications, satellite control, various types of simulations, and the Apollo space missions. Projects for the private sector included information management systems for hospitals, the National Science Foundation, state governments, airports, libraries, and other customers.
The new company required increasing numbers of programmers to build sage and then a variety of other projects, and expanded from about 450 employees in 1956 to 3500 by For example, after completing sage by the late 19505, sdc designed a command-control system for the u.s. Strategic Air Command, saccs (sac Command and Control). The operating system alone, which ran on an ibm mainframe, exceeded 3 million lines of code, an astounding length for a program at that time.6 soc then went on during the 19605 to build other complex software systems for the u.s. Government to handle air defense and communications, satellite control, various types of simulations, and the Apollo space missions. Projects for the private sector included information management systems for hospitals, the National Science Foundation, state governments, airports, libraries, and other customers.
72 pages, Paperback
First published August 5, 2015
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