Note 53
The demonstration took place at Gunter Air Force Base. NSW was an experimental prototype providing for heterogeneous integration of software services and tools available on TENEX, MULTICS and OS/360 platforms available at various ARPAnet hosts, and was a very early attempt at what today we would call Software as a Service (SaaS). It culminated in an extensive technology evaluation begun in 1978 of coordinated use across various Air Force Logistics Center sites across the US, highlighting the integrated and collaborative use of the emerging network capability for US DoD users, in conjunction with higher level integrative software layers we would today recognize as middleware.