steven parks
osi history and development
5/22/07
The history of the development of the OSI model is a little-known story. Much of the work on the design of OSI was done by a group at Honeywell Information Systems, headed by Mike Canepa, with Charlie Bachman as the principal technical member. This group was organized within Honeywell, with advanced product planning and with the design and development of prototype systems.
In the early and mid '70s, the interest of Canepa's group was mainly on database design and then distributed database design. By the mid-70s, it become clear that to support database machines, distributed access, and the like, a structured distributed communications architecture would be needed. The group studied some of the existing solutions, including IBM's system network architecture (SNA), the work on protocols being done for ARPANET, and some of the concepts of presentation services being developed for standardized database systems. The result of this......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 766
Approximate Pages: 3 (260 words per double-spaced page) |