Internetworking with TCP/IP: principles, protocols, and architecture
Internetworking with TCP/IP: principles, protocols, and architecture
Computer networks
Operating System Concepts, 4th Ed.
Operating System Concepts, 4th Ed.
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The increasing power of low-cost computers has brought about a revolution in computing. The traditional computing center of the 197Os, characterized by a small number of centralized mainframe (q.v.) computers shared by all users in an organization, has been supplanted by workstations and personal computers located in departmental user rooms and private offices. With the increased number of machines came the need to move data and files from one machine to another. One approach to solving the file transfer problem is to connect the machines to a network and provide primitives that allow users to copy files from one machine to another. This approach works best when the number of files that need to be exchanged is small. A second approach is to place shared data on a file server and have individual machines access data files located on the remote file server rather than on a local disk.