The trucks will be rumbling down to Swindon through the night for some time as IBM delivers the latest complement of hardware for the Galileo British Airways Plc-led air reservations consortium. The monster order includes four new 3090-280Ss, upgrade of two 180Es to 280Ss – all to be run as separate processors, because the Airline Control Program doesn’t like multiprocessing. There are also to be three 4381s on site. The complex is required to deliver 1,000 transactions a second under the TPF Transaction Processing Facility – which Amdahl Corp has just committed to supporting on its 5990s and 5980s (CI No 1,031).
