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If the term “computer networking” were to be interpreted literally one would conjure up an image of a number of computers interconnected such that any one computer is not only interfaced to one or more other computers but that functionally one could envision a single problem being worked on by two or more computers in the net with no human intervention.

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Lykos, P.G. (1974). Introduction. In: Siler, W., Lindberg, D.A.B. (eds) Computers in Life Science Research. FASEB Monographs, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0546-1_28

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