CIS provides a wide variety of information and services,
news, sports and weather, financial transactions,
electronicmail, travel and entertainment data as well as on-line
editions of computer publications. CompuServe Information
Service should not be confused with CompuServe Corporation's
other sectors which offer many other services besides the
consumer information service.
CIS is a large international conferencing system (albeit with
a heavy US bias). It provides an access to the
Usenet news
(GO INTERNET). More comprehensive
Internet access is
planned for the end of 1994. Forum UKCOMP topic Acorn/Z88 is
the place to find
Acorn users.
Compuserve's main competitors are
AOL and
Prodigy.
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(1995-09-12)