Features
TCAM provided similar functionality to QTAM, which it replaced. It was the access method for the initial version of Time Sharing Option (TSO).
TCAM was said to have the following enhancements over QTAM:
- Improved buffering, with more buffering options.
- Improved organization of message queuing on disk including multiple volume support.
- Back-up copies of messages maintained on disk.
- Improved testing and debugging including off-line testing, improved debugging, online terminal testing, and logging.
- Improved line handling for inquiry applications.
- "Significantly increases speed and efficiency over QTAM."
- Improved operator monitoring and control.
- Binary Synchronous Support.
- Checkpointing.
Read more about this topic: Telecommunications Access Method
Famous quotes containing the word features:
“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)