Pub Date : 1986-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0011-684X(86)90066-3
Malcolm Carter
Software documentation is not treated with great importance by suppliers. It has come to be regarded as a ‘bad joke’ in the DP industry. However, the microcomputer software suppliers are showing that good documentation can be produced.
Documentation houses are available for redeveloping current documentation and developing standards for authors.
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Pub Date : 1986-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0011-684X(86)90090-0
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Pub Date : 1986-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0011-684X(86)90092-4
{"title":"Logical approach to expert systems development","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0011-684X(86)90092-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0011-684X(86)90092-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100352,"journal":{"name":"Data Processing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0011-684X(86)90092-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136855216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1986-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0011-684X(86)90065-1
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{"title":"Computers in clinical medicine","authors":"Bernard Richards","doi":"10.1016/0011-684X(86)90071-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0011-684X(86)90071-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Technological developments in the medical field have caused hospitals and medical centres to rethink their ideas on medical care.</p><p>In the UK, the Korner Data Set requires that a minimum amount of information should be collected on every patient, to be commenced by April 1987.</p><p>All areas of medicine have been affected by computerized techniques including the maternity ward.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100352,"journal":{"name":"Data Processing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0011-684X(86)90071-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91169927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1986-12-01DOI: 10.1016/0011-684X(86)90072-9
Julia Van Duyn
The world's largest online lottery is being run in California, USA. Within the next four years a total of 12000 terminals will be running the lottery. Two sites are being used to process the work simultaneously, linked by high-speed telecommunications lines.
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