Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Junichi Kazama

Masaki Sato

Hiroyuki Kitajima

Seiji Kageyama

Hitoshi Ueno

Makoto Kitagawa

Kazuhiko Ohmachi

Takuya Shimakawa

Satoru Matsumoto

Tadashi Okada

Mitsuru Doki

Hirofumi Kinoshita

Hidekazu Kanao

In a printing system including a plurality of terminal equipment, a plurality of printers which can be shared by the terminal equipment, one or more printer/spooler control servers each for receiving a print from the terminal equipment and for controlling the print by the printer, and a distributed printing management server, for various errors which occur in the printers, the contents of the errors are informed to the user and an error recovery process according to the error is realized. Thus, a use efficiency, performance, reliability, and serviceability as a printing system are improved.

Printing system

An automated operation machine including a first device driver for transmitting a console display message given by being addressed from a program for automatic operation, and a first adaptor connected to the first device driver, for outputting said console display message in a preselected format, can additionally own automatic operation performance without changing the first device driver by including the below-mentioned arrangements. That is, this automated operation machine is included of a second device driver for transmitting a predetermined operator command given from an operator program in correspondence to acertain message, a second adaptor connected to the second device driver, for outputting the operator command in a predetermined format, and a connection cable for mutually connecting the first device driver with the second device driver and for switching the console display message and the operator command between the first and second device drivers in order to continue the above-explained automatic operation. The connection cable is mutually cross-connected between on pair of input and output terminals of the first and second adaptors. The memory stores a console change program used to change the content of the configuration information area. Another device driver connected to a LAN is selectable by being addressed from the display program in order to input a command.

Apparatus for sending message via cable between programs and performing

A method of assinging software resources such as files and programs to memory devices is disclosed which uses first storage for storing therein the access frequency to a memory device for causing each type of service request to utilize each of software resources and second storage for storing therein the processing speed, allowable utilization and storage capacity of each of memory devices and in which the allocation of each of said software resources to the memory devices is determined on the basis of information stored in the first and second storages so that a total time taken to access the memory devices is minimized while being restricted by the allowable utilization and storage capacity of each memory device.

Method of and apparatus for assigning software resources to memory

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Yokohama, Japan

Junichi Kazama