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- From: srebnick@bagels.enet.dec.com (David Srebnick)
- Subject: Re: open architecture
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.130244.1993@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:02:44 GMT
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- David,
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- My understanding of an "open architecture" is one whose design specifications
- and standards are publicly available, allowing many vendors to implement
- systems compatible with the specification. The opposite of an "open
- architecture" is a "proprietary architecture."
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- Could you be more specific? Are you interested in network architectures,
- operating system architectures...
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- In the networks space, OSI (Open System Interconnection) is an example of an
- open architecture. It was (is being) developed by committees consisting of
- many vendors. The end result is an open networks architecture and protocol
- suite that many vendors can implement, and (theoretically) have their systems
- communicate with one another.
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- For networks one book to read is: "The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on
- OSI" by Marshall T. Rose, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 07632. (c)
- 1990.
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- Dave
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