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Computer Networks
September/October 1970 (vol. 3 no. 5)
pp. 13-23
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C.G. Bell, A.N. Habermann, J. McCredie, R. Rutledge, W. Wulf, "Computer Networks," Computer, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 13-23, September/October, 1970.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/C-M.1970.216702,
author = {C.G. Bell and A.N. Habermann and J. McCredie and R. Rutledge and W. Wulf},
title = {Computer Networks},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {3},
number = {5},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {1970},
pages = {13-23},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/C-M.1970.216702},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Computer networks have the ability to bring the power of large machines to work on a single problem and to provide reliable computer services to large populations. They also may become an unmanageable structure that can cripple itself in a fashion akin to the great Northeast power failure in 1965. Imagine the following sequence: computer X does not have the sine subprogram but relies on computer Y for it; computer Y on the other hand solves the sine subprogram using the cosine subprogram which it doesn't have; computer Y therefore calls X for a cosine; X solves for cosine using sine which it asks Y for.& Of course, you say, no computer network would be so simplistic. But would you guarantee it could never happen for any set of computer resources among N computers-and that the network might not head for the buried recursive disaster like a lemming for a cliff?
Citation:
C.G. Bell, A.N. Habermann, J. McCredie, R. Rutledge, W. Wulf, "Computer Networks," Computer, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 13-23, Sept.-Oct. 1970, doi:10.1109/C-M.1970.216702
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