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What fids3 stays for ?

April 26, 2017fids3

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What fids3 stays for ?

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Fids3 stays for ‘3rd generation (F)light (I)nformations (D)isplay (S)ystem’. Before the personal computer (PC) came up there were a lot of miscellaneous systems mostly developed in assembler language on different hardware platforms (e.g. Dec VAX, Microvax, PDP11, Honeywell Bull DPS3). Hardware was very heavy and expensive. There were absolutly no standards. This was the 1st generation of FIDS. Beginning of the 90ties the personal computer (PC) was developed. The power of this new generation of computers was improved dramatically and the first portations of the PC-based UNIX V operation system became available.