By Paul G. Heckel, Butler W. Lampson
Communications of the ACM,
July 1977,
Vol. 20 No. 7, Pages 486-494
10.1145/359636.359703
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This paper describes a system for full-duplex communication between a time-shared computer and its terminals. The system consists of a communications computer directly connected to the time-shared system, a number of small remote computers to which the terminals are attached, and connecting medium speed telephone lines. It can service a large number of terminals of various types. The overall system design is presented along with the algorithms used to solve three specific problems: local echoing, error detection and correction on the telephone lines, and multiplexing of character output.
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