Turkey’s largest bank, TC Ziraat Bankasi, has placed a $30m order for 5,000 Unisys Inc CTOS Supergen workstations through the distributor, KOC-Unisys: this order takes the total number of the bank’s CTOS workstations up to 22,000 and makes the bank one of the largest users in the world; the systems are connected over an X25 network and all applications are based on distributed processing with no direct connection to a host mainframe; two A16 mainframes are installed in the Ankara headquarters for management information reporting and administration of central banking operations, while two A12 mainframes run a credit card application.
