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THE ALOHA SYSTEM: another alternative for computer communications

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Norman AbramsonAuthors Info & Claims

AFIPS '70 (Fall): Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference

Pages 281 - 285

https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478502

Published: 17 November 1970 Publication History

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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.

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