Title: A quick tour of Internet and the Information Superhighway, Part 1: On‐ramps, pit stops, and exits
Abstract: Most of us are probably comfortable with our desk‐top computers and their daily use in data manipulation, processing, interpretation, database management and report writing, and we tend to take for granted that our computers are increasingly part of an expanding network. Indeed, the connectivity of computers appears to have come full circle: a decade ago we had computer terminals that were connected to a mainframe and controlled by a central computer‐services bureaucracy. Many breathed a sigh of relief when personal computers came along and the user was totally in charge. More recently, because of the incredible power of modern workstations and desk‐top computers, and the need to connect to laser printers and large storage devices, we find that we are again part of a network. Many of your workstations may be configured in a client‐server system, connected in a Lan (Local‐Area Network) or a Wan (Wide‐Area Network). In all of these situations, your computer is connected to other computers, and data or progr...
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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