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Personal Computer Networks
Pages 36-40

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... from a computing standpoint as the clecade of the local networking of personal computers. This represents the third major phase in the history of computers and in the application of computing technology.
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From page 37...
... Networking adds a sixth category to Mitchell Kapor's five applications word processing, spreadsheet, clatabase, graphics, and communications. What are variously called local computer networks, local area networks, or more frequently just networking answer the need for a system to connect huncireds of computers on separate desks.
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... And the computer industry is moving into the next phase. Because local networks of personal computers are so effective at generating and delivering electronic messages, electronic mail
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... In the future, electronic mail will involve even more data-intensive mocles- for example, voice integration in the messaging system, eliminating the telephone tag but maintaining voice, and eventually forms-base messaging in which the contents of the message is machine processable. Where does software development fit into the trench toward local networking of personal computers?
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... With such a system, there is the danger of multiple accesses damaging each other. Thus, the obvious next step is making available multiaccess database software using local networks to bring a number of PC users to the same database for concurrent access and update.
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