FASTER (First Automated Teleprocessing Environment Reponder)
was a
transaction processor that ran on
IBM mainframe
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systems under
OS/MFT.
FASTER was available from
IBM
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and designed for rapid, low to medium volume online processing. This process was entirely interactive (screen-oriented using
2260 display terminals).
The 'official' version of FASTER was
single thread only and was a forerunner of
MTCS before it was released.
Transactions
A FASTER transaction is a set of operations which together perform a task. Usually, the majority of transactions are relatively simple tasks such as updating the balance of an account.
FASTER applications comprise transactions which were written in IBM
Basic Assembly Language and interfaced with
2260 terminals.
Each FASTER program was initiated using a transaction identifier. FASTER screens were sent as native
2260 datastreams to the terminal.
History
The first release of FASTER was made available prior to the first release of
MTCS in the mid 1960s. FASTER and was a higher level
BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method (BTAM) is a low-level programming interface specified by IBM for use on the IBM System/360 for start-stop and binary synchronous telecommunications terminals. Later, IBM specified higher-level interfaces QTA ...
based product that controlled
IBM 2260
The text-only Monochrome monitor, monochrome IBM 2260 cathode-ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus computer keyboard, keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended ...
display terminals
See also
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IBM 2260
The text-only Monochrome monitor, monochrome IBM 2260 cathode-ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus computer keyboard, keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended ...
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OS/MFT
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BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method (BTAM) is a low-level programming interface specified by IBM for use on the IBM System/360 for start-stop and binary synchronous telecommunications terminals. Later, IBM specified higher-level interfaces QTA ...
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MTCS: a later teleprocessing monitor from
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
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Transaction processing
IBM mainframe software