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While the slogan “the Network is the Computer” has been around for over a decade, few in the computer industry (including those who used the slogan) actually believed it. At best, the slogan has been interpreted as meaning that the network is an important way to connect computers.But there has been a hard and fast line in system design between the computer and the network that is used to connect different computers, allowing those computers to share data and, at some high level, coordinate to perform some common function.Rather than the network being the computer, the network has marked the border between computers.
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Waldo, J. (2002). Coordination and System Design in a Network-Centric Age. In: Arbab, F., Talcott, C. (eds) Coordination Models and Languages. COORDINATION 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46000-4_2
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