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Name Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture
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Identifiers PUID:  x-fmt/11
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Classification Word Processor
Disclosure  
Description The Document Content Architecture, (DCA for short) is a standard developed by IBM for text documents in the early 1980s. DCA was used on mainframe and iSeries systems, and formed the basis of DisplayWrite's file format. DCA was later extended as MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture), which added embedded data files, like graphics.
Orientation Text
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Related file formats None.
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Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 02 Aug 2005
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Last updated 03 Aug 2015
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