The Legion Vision of a Worldwide Virtual Computer

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-45

  Grimshaw, Andrew S ^a   Wulf, Wm A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTIMEDIA; WORLDWIDE VIRTUAL COMPUTER;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 0030834939     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/242857.242867     Document Type: Article

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