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The ISO Open Systems Interconnection Model has provided the basis for discussions at successive NATO Advanced Study Institutes. As implementations of systems exploiting the lower levels of the ISO OSI model become available commercially, the spotlight is tending to turn more toward the shortcomings which make the productive interconnection of heterogeneous computer systems elusive. The diminishing cost of computers, coupled with their increasing power, is inducing an explosion of diverse small systems, many of which are being used for the manipulation of valuable corporate data. The rapid growth of distributed systems is not wholly without risk and, together with today’s focus on information technology, a need for a professional information engineer is becoming apparent. The questions below were offered as a starting point for discussion on some of these issues.
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Wing, L. (1984). Communications Services and Distributed System Operations. In: Beauchamp, K.G. (eds) Information Technology and the Computer Network. NATO ASI Series, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87089-7_26
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