Phased Development
John E. Bingham, Garth W. P. Davies · 1977
When people talk of installing data communications systems, the first thoughts that come to mind are, all too often, large processors, front-end processors, concentrators and terminals linked in a complex network. Yet such systems account for only a small percentage of those actually in use or even planned. It is certainly not necessary to think in those terms if one is to obtain many of the benefits of data-communications-based data processing systems.