Network access techniques: a review

  • Authors:
  • Robert Rosenthal

  • Affiliations:
  • National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '76 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1976, national computer conference and exposition
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

The computer industry's ability to serve a diverse and expanding user community is evidenced by the rapid growth of computer network services. Computer service providers design and market their own offerings as they deem best, given their own market and their own set of resources. This has led to a proliferation of similar resources requiring different user access procedures. With emphasis on currently operating and planned systems that assist users in accessing available network services, this paper identifies the techniques used in network access devices. By examining these devices, the trend toward improving the interface between the user and the computer is brought more clearly into focus and up to date.