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Abstract
Although the Computer Industry is’ Young compared to other industries Y Computers have made spectacular progress in a short time + During the first two decades of their existence Y Computer Systems were highly localized r usually within a single large room , Not infreauently Y this room had glass walls through which visitors could gawk at the great electronic wonder inside + A medium size company or university might have had one or two computers Y with large ones having had at most a few dozen . The idea that within 20 years eaually. powerful computers smaller than postagestamps would be mass produced by the millions was pure science fiction +
The merging of computers and communicaions has had a Profound influence on the way computer sustems, are organized . The concept of the ’Computer Center” as a room with a large computer to which users bring their work is rapidly becoming obsolete 4 This model has not one r but two
flows in it the concept of a single large computer doing
all the work and the idea of users bringing work to the
computer y instead of bringing the computer to the users .