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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Transaction Processing Facility | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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Transaction Processing Facility system} released by {IBM} around 1976. TPF is particularly suited to organisations dealing in very high I/O message switching and large global networks. Current users include British Airways (reservations), VISA International (authorisations), Holiday Inn, and Quantas. TPF was traditionally a {370/Assembler} environment although the latest, release 4.1, contains {C}. Formerly known as ACP (Airline Control Program), it was renamed "TPF" to suggests its greater scope. It is common for TPF sites to use IBM's {MVS} and {VM} operating systems for {off-line} processing. (1996-08-27) | |
