Author: Marshall D. Abrams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780267058310

Excerpt from The Service Concept Applied to Computer Networks In recent years, increasing numbers of people have begun to use computers through interactive terminals in a conversational mode. Rather than submitting jobs in a batch mode and waiting hours (or days) for the results, users interact with the computer continuously on a transaction oriented basis. This trend gives every evidence ofcontinuing, and it appears that this will be the predominant form of computer access in the future. This type of computer access is characteristic of most current computer networks. As discussed here, a computer network consists of one or more computers, one or more human users employing - an interactive terminal, and the communications facilities which interconnect them [bl74]. The user of a computer network is a customer for computer services. The communications portion of the network is only the delivery mechanism for the service which the user observes and evaluates. However, as a delivery mechanism, the communications facility may have a significant effect on the service received by the user at his terminal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.