322	 Operational Compatibility of Systems-CONVENTIONS	 The General Standards Committee of the SHARE organization has devoted considerable effort to the problem of operating a computer efficiently in view of the growing number of programming systems available. Each of these programming systems has been coded to utilize a fixed set of hardware components without recognizing the fact that others may be occupying a storage medium required by the first. These incompatibilities are currently resolved by manually setting up the computer for each system as required. The following set of conventions is being considered to minimize computer set-up time. They are of sufficiently broad interest that we feel other computer users should be aware of them. -George F. Ryckman Chairman
