{"title":"THE ALOHA SYSTEM: another alternative for computer communications","authors":"N. Abramson","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478502","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In September 1968 the University of Hawaii began work on a research program to investigate the use of radio communications for computer-computer and console-computer links. In this report we describe a remote-access computer system---THE ALOHA SYSTEM---under development as part of that research program and discuss some advantages of radio communications over conventional wire communications for interactive users of a large computer system. Although THE ALOHA SYSTEM research program is composed of a large number of research projects, in this report we shall be concerned primarily with a novel form of random-access radio communications developed for use within THE ALOHA SYSTEM.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1950","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478502","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1950
Abstract
In September 1968 the University of Hawaii began work on a research program to investigate the use of radio communications for computer-computer and console-computer links. In this report we describe a remote-access computer system---THE ALOHA SYSTEM---under development as part of that research program and discuss some advantages of radio communications over conventional wire communications for interactive users of a large computer system. Although THE ALOHA SYSTEM research program is composed of a large number of research projects, in this report we shall be concerned primarily with a novel form of random-access radio communications developed for use within THE ALOHA SYSTEM.