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BUSINESS SYSTElVIS
Systems Development Departmellt
To: . Bill Lynch Date: 23 February 1979
From: Jim \Vhite Org: SDD/SS Communication and I/O Software
Subject: Progress, Communication Filed: [Iris]Progress-February.l3ravo
Hnd I/O Sortwilrc
Planning and Administration
Responsibility for I/O device microcode and drivers was transferred to Communication Software as
a result of the reorganization announced by Bill Lynch in his 12 February memo entitled "Systems
Software Section Reorganization". The group has been renamed Communication and I/O Sottware
(CI0S) and now includes Pius Jarvis, John Ng, and Alan Freier, who is scheduled to report on IS
March. Yogcn Dalal and Jim \Vhite assumed project leadership responsibility for OIS
Communication and IOCS, respectively.
CIOS now has a Jarge number of vacant slots to fill: two in OIS Cotnl11unicntion and several in the
10CS area. Jim, Yogen, and others in the group have begun actively seeking out and interviewing
candidates. The need for OISCr personnel is aggravatcd by Jim's newlOCS responsibilities. 111e
current 10CS manpower shortage (along with uncertainty about device availability) severely limits