A distributed data processing system including a general, passive, communications network, and a plurality of local systems which each have a central processing unit, associated memory, and at least one peripheral device. The control of the intercommunication is effected by respective system intercommunication...http://www.google.de/patents/US4396983?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4396983 - Distributed data processing system having several local system and communication modules for use in such data processing system
