from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
CompuServe Information Service
CI$
<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.
(http://compuserve.com/).
(1995-09-12)