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The paper presents a design overview of several of the ATM Devices produced within the Desk Area Network project and discusses the Operating Systems issues that they give rise to.
If you make the assumption that the future high speed networks will be packet based
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McAuley, D.R. (1994). Operating system support for the Desk Area Network. In: Shepherd, D., Blair, G., Coulson, G., Davies, N., Garcia, F. (eds) Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video. NOSSDAV 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 846. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58404-8_2
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