TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slonim, Jacob
AU  - Schonbach, Abraham;Bauer, Michael A.;MacRae, Lachlan J.;Thomas, Keith A.
TI  - Building an open system
SN  - 442280688
AV  - QA 76.9 .B85 1987 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc.
KW  - ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING -- DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. The technological basis of open system -- 3. The architecture of open system -- 4. Directories and dictionaries -- 5. Design and implementation of open system -- 6. Communications -- 7. Distributed databases -- 8. Conclusions: future development in open systems
N2  - This book presents rather more comprehensively than usual the technology of open systems, and attempts to predict the development of that technology in a historical context in which technical, economic, and political problems are intertwined
ER  -