Microcomputers as remote nodes of a distributed system

  • Authors:
  • Michael A. Pechura

  • Affiliations:
  • Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

A time-sharing system may be extended into a general-purpose distributed computing facility through the use of remote microcomputer systems. In such an extension the microcomputer system is not merely a remote terminal but a complete computer system. It becomes part of an integrated network of computers, each with significant local computational power with access to host system data resources. The implementation described emphasizes ease-of-use by minimizing any differences between local and remote data use.