Software:Integrated Publishing System
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Integrated Publishing System is a system released in 1982[1] for publishing multilingual literature.[2][3]
According to the system description prepared by IBM, "The Integrated Publishing System provided text entry, interactive full-page composition, and output to an online phototypesetter for quality publications such as brochures, reports, manuals, books and magazines."[4]
The software was developed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society[2][3] on an IBM mainframe computer[5] using an Autologic typesetter. IPS was acquired by IBM, which intended to use the system to increase its hold on the publishing industry.[6] The system was available until at least 1990.[4]
The system went on to have some success commercially, being used to publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica - according to the account of the long-time editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Robert McHenry,[2][3] which was the first universal encyclopedia available in an electronic version.[7]
References
- ↑ "PROGRAMMING PRICE LIST FOR: IBM SERIES/l", Service For Consultants-October 1982 (IBM): p. 10 (165), http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/serviceForConsultants/Service_For_Consultants_198210.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Robert McHenry: Britannica Online History, 2003,
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Robert McHenry . "The Building of Britannica Online". William J. Bowe. https://wbowe.com/2025/08/02/appendix-2-the-building-of-britannica-online-2/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 IBM System/370, 30xx, 4300, and 9370 Processors. Bibliography of Industry Systems and Application Programs, IBM, p. 250, http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/serviceForConsultants/Service_For_Consultants_198210.pdf, January 1990
- ↑ Technical Newsletter GN20-0370-7. IBM System/370, 30xx and 4300 Processors: Bibliography of Industry Systems and Applications Programs, IBM, p. 46 (52), https://vtda.org/docs/computing/IBM/Mainframe/AppSoftware/GN20-0370-7_Technical%20Newsletter_UpdateToGC20-0370-3_30Sept83.pdf, September 30, 1983
- ↑ Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, 12, Seybold Publishing Inc., September 13, 1982
- ↑ "Robert McHenry". https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-McHenry.
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