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Adding voice to an office computer network

Swinehart et al., 1984

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11607614033296923021
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Swinehart D
Stewart L
Ornstein S
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This paper describes the architecture and initial implementation of an experimental telephone system developed by the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC CSL). A specially designed processor (Etherphone TM) connects …
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