An environmental simulator for the FDNY computer aided dispatch system
So, while I was finishing a paper for LISA (a part of USENIX), I was going through the ACM Digital Library looking for some useful papers, when I came across: An environmental simulator for the FDNY computer aided dispatch system (PDF). The amusing thing is the begining of the abstract:
FDNY’s MICS computer-aided dispatch system is designed about dual PDP 11/45s and supported in fallback by dual INTEL 8080 micro-processors. The computer processes alarms, assigns available units, notifies these units by voice and hard copy terminals located in the fire stations, monitors status changes of firefighting units and incidents, and dynamically adjusts firefighting coverage for maximum effect.
Well, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when the paper was published in 1976.