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  1. Associations
  2. Journals
  3. Computer Games (Downloadable)
  4. Computer Terminology
  5. Fonts and Character Sets
  6. Operating Systems
  7. Research Facilities

ASSOCIATIONS

EUROPE

UNITED KINGDOM

bulletBritish Computer Society (BCS) Swindon, Wiltshire, England

JOURNALS

ASIA

INDIA

bulletPC Quest

NORTH AMERICA

UNITED STATES

bulletPC Computing

COMPUTER GAMES (DOWNLOADABLE)

SIMULATION GAMES

TRANSPORTATION

bulletBahn Source: Jan Bochmann, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. [In German and English]
A shareware program, running under DOS, for the simulation of rail-based transportation systems (trains, trams/streetcars, metros/subways etc.). The program is capable of running hundreds of vehicles simultaneously on a large number of routes. Many scenarios prepared by various people worldwide may also be downloaded from sites linked to this page.

COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY

DICTIONARIES

bulletThe Free On-line Dictionary of Computing Source: Gábor J.Tóth and Paul Mayer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

FONTS AND CHARACTER SETS

INDIAN ALPHABETS

bulletGIST (Graphic and Intelligence Based Script Technology) Source: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, Maharashtra, India
Major source of software and expertise on the use of Indian scripts in computing applications.

LATIN ALPHABET

LATIN 2 CHARACTER SET

bulletLatin 2 Fonts Author: Primoz Peterlin, Medicinska fakulteta, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Resource page on the Latin 2 (ISO Standard 8859-2) character set (useful for writing Central and Eastern European languages using the Latin script), including sources of fonts incorporating it.

UNICODE

bulletBrowsing the Memory of the World (Author: Carl-Martin Bunz) and Unicode, Ancient Languages and the WWW (Authors: Carl-Martin Bunz and Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert)
Essays on the reasons behind the adoption of Unicode as the standard encoding method for texts on the Internet in all languages.
bulletIBabble: A Synoptic Unicode Browser Source: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Also a source for the downloading of the Bitstream Cyberbit font, containing many (but not all) of the characters in the Unicode character set.
bulletUnicode Source: The Unicode Consortium, San Jose, CA, USA
Homepage of the Unicode Consortium, which " is responsible for defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters, and providing technical information to implementers." A fairly complete list of Unicode characters (with corresponding "glyphs", i.e. visual representations) are available in the Unicode 2.1 Charts.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

LINUX

bulletLinux International Amherst, NH, USA
Organization dedicated to the worldwide diffusion to Linux, a FREE operating system based on UNIX but implemented primarily in microcomputers.
bulletLinux Online
Much useful information on Linux, including on how to install it.

RESEARCH FACILITIES

ASIA

INDIA

bulletCentre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune, Maharashtra
"C-DAC is India’s national initiative in Advanced Computing. C-DAC’s mission is to deliver state-of-the-art, open architecture, scalable high-performance computers in the desktop to teraflops range, embodying emergent industry-standard building blocks."

 

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