<company> (CIS) One of the services run by CompuServe
Corporation. CIS provides a wide variety of information and
services, including bulletin boards, on-line conferencing,
business news, sports and weather, financial transactions,
electronic mail, 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 was
planned for the end of 1994.
Compuserve's main competitors were AOL and Prodigy. The
names CI$ and Compu$erve, once used in sig blocks, refer
to CompuServe's high charges.
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