Fujikama goes Unix

Author

Luk, Albert

Author_Institution

Fujikama O.A. Distribution Western Inc., Richmond, BC, Canada

fYear

1991

fDate

9-10 May 1991

Firstpage

783

Abstract

Describes the design of a Unix business solution for the management information systems (MIS) of a high-tech manufacturer and distributor. A MRP (material requirement planning) application package called DBSI has been implemented on a Fujikama 486-33C model running SCO Unix System V.3.2. The integrated package covers all aspects of manufacturing, inventory, sales, accounting, shipping, receiving, purchasing, cost of materials, pricings, and billing of materials. Unix offers portability because it is written in the high-level language C. The Unix operating system can be ported to a new hardware platform in weeks. Applications developed in the Unix operating system need not be rewritten. Multiple 486 servers can exist to host more than 96 terminals in the system. With the Unix NFS and RFS (network file system and remote file system) support, a terminal can log on and run applications on more than one server

Keywords

Unix; accounts data processing; distributive data processing; management information systems; manufacturing data processing; C language; DBSI; Fujikama; Fujikama 486-33C; SCO Unix System V.3.2; Unix business solution; Unix operating system; accounting; billing; cost; inventory; management information systems; manufacturing; material requirement planning; multiple 486 servers; network file system; pricings; purchasing; receiving; remote file system; sales; shipping; Costs; File systems; Management information systems; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Materials requirements planning; Network servers; Operating systems; Packaging; Pricing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1991., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-87942-638-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1991.160857

Filename

160857