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Virtual terminal definition and protocol

Virtual terminal definition and protocol Virtual Terminal Definition and Protocol P. Schicker and A. Duenki European Informatics Network E i d g e n o e s s i s c h e Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Clausisusstr. 55 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland ]. INTRODUCTION ].]. General Concept The steady increase in special features in terminals makes it difficult to write an application which can communicate with more than a few types of terminals; on the other hand, the introduction of a network between the terminal and the application provides access at the data transmission level to a plethora of services. Does the terminal user wish to access many of these services? And if so, can we provide him with a facility which will make his single terminal adequate for the many d i f f e r e n t c o n v e r s a t i o n s ? The situation is somewhat analogous to that of the early telephone; parties interested in communicating used the same telephone system. To reach the entire telephone c o m m u n i t y one needed a telephone for each system. As terminal and computing costs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Association for Computing Machinery

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0146-4833
DOI
10.1145/1015842.1015843
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Abstract

Virtual Terminal Definition and Protocol P. Schicker and A. Duenki European Informatics Network E i d g e n o e s s i s c h e Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Clausisusstr. 55 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland ]. INTRODUCTION ].]. General Concept The steady increase in special features in terminals makes it difficult to write an application which can communicate with more than a few types of terminals; on the other hand, the introduction of a network between the terminal and the application provides access at the data transmission level to a plethora of services. Does the terminal user wish to access many of these services? And if so, can we provide him with a facility which will make his single terminal adequate for the many d i f f e r e n t c o n v e r s a t i o n s ? The situation is somewhat analogous to that of the early telephone; parties interested in communicating used the same telephone system. To reach the entire telephone c o m m u n i t y one needed a telephone for each system. As terminal and computing costs

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Oct 1, 1976

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