'Soft' computer speeds new system development

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PARIS, May 18 - An American computer system that's claimed to fill a 'special need in the computer industry' for an off-the-shelf machine that can mimic any digital architecture has found its first customer in Europe. Thomson Csf has installed the system, a QM-1 from Nanodata Computer Corporation of Buffalo, New York, at its Central Research Laboratory at Corbeville, Orsay, south of here.