What are the main features of the new Satellite Operating Support System (SOSS)?
Custom software will run under the IBM OS/2 Warp operating system on an IBM-compatible PC. A real-time, run-time operating system called Quadron Control Facility will run on a high-speed serial port co-processor card called an ARTC within the PC. The custom software set will let you do the following: • set up the computer and its peripherals to match station preferences; • receive, view, copy, extract, sort, filter and print DACS messages; • receive satellite transmission schedule; • electronically mark which satellite transmissions they want to “capture” and to assign demods and tape recorders to capture them; • type in local “events” that can be used to record feeds from other audio services or to automate their radio station. In the new DACS system, each message will consist of the following: • A “header” (the part with to: from: date:, plus new features like “keywords:”; • A text message or “body,” which can only be sent and received as plain ASCII text characters, without boldface
