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TCP/IP and OSI Interoperability with the X Window System
Nancy Crowther and Joyce Graham, IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
Network users are faced with the problem of making the transition from TCP/IP applications to the emerging Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocols. To accomplish this goal, these users must rewrite their code to use OSI, or switch to new applications, or use a gateway between TCP/IP and OSI based applications. This paper details how this problem was solved in work at IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center for one distributed application, the X Window System, and how the same methods could be used for other applications. The draft ANSI standard mapping X to OSI is explained. The changes that were made to the X Window System to support OSI and an X TCP-OSI Gateway are described. The best method for migrating applications was found to be extensions to the socket to support OSI at multiple layers.
author = {Nancy Crowther and Joyce Graham},
title = {{TCP/IP} and {OSI} Interoperability with the X Window System},
booktitle = {USENIX Summer 1992 Technical Conference (USENIX Summer 1992 Technical Conference)},
year = {1992},
address = {San Antonio, TX},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-summer-1992-technical-conference/tcpip-and-osi-interoperability-x-window-system},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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