Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

CompuServe Information Service
     
        (CIS) One of the services run by {CompuServe Corporation}.
        CIS provides a wide variety of information and services,
        including {bulletin board}s, 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 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}.
     
        {Home (http://www.compuserve.com/)}.
     
        Telephone: +44 (181) 801 2001 (London), +44 (121) 632 4858
        (Birmingham), +44 (1734) 391 064 or 569 025 (Reading), +44
        (1272) 255 111 (Bristol).
     
        (1995-09-12)