Communications of the ACM
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - The MIT Press scientific computation series
A distributed UNIX system based on a virtual circuit switch
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Comparison of UNIX network systems
SIGSMALL '83 Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGSMALL symposium on Personal and small computers
Engineering computer network (ECN): a hardwired network of UNIX computer systems
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
Case study: Implementation of a Unix network
Computer Communications
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A Network Interface Program (NIP) is that part of an operating system which interfaces with similar entities in a network. Normally, the NIP is a collection of software routines which implement interprocess communication, interhost protocols, data flow controls, and other necessary executive functions. This paper discusses the organization of the NIP currently being used with the Unix operating system on the ARPA network. The Network Unix system is noteworthy because of the natural way that network and local functions are merged. As a result the network appears as a logical extension to the local system - from the point of view of both the interactive terminal and user program.