Padlipsky, M.A. (Septiembre de 1982). «A Perspective on the ARPANET Reference Model»(html)(en inglés). Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2019. «By "intercomputer networking" we mean the attachment of multiple, usually general-purpose computer systems--in the sense of Operating Systems of potentially different manufacture (i.e., "Heterogeneous Operating Systems")--to some communications network, or communications networks somehow interconnected, for the purpose of achieving resource sharing amongst the participating operating systems, usually called Hosts.»
