Title
PC industry specialists from east and west agree on an eastern european standard
Catalog Number
102770587
Type
Document
Description
Press release announcing that major Western companies in the computer software and hardware industry, in conjunction with leading East European developers, announced agreement on a single character set for the Eastern European PC market. During a two-day workshop in Budapest co-sponsored by Ashton-Tate and Microsoft in late June, experts from East and West met to discuss the difficult question of establishing standards for character sets -- or "code pages" -- as well as keyboard layouts and other issues particular to each country. Representatives from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Lotus Development, Aldus corporation, and Cherry Keyboards met with specialists from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia. Donated by Ed Esber. 6 scanned pages.
Date
1990-07-16
Publisher
Ashton-Tate
Identifying Numbers
| Other number |
doc-4471006f66b96 |
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Extent
6 p.
Category
Press release
Collection Title
Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection
