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<font color="#0000FF">At 11:51 AM 12/2/2005, Phill Gross wrote:<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">1. Does anyone
have pointers to or copies of pre-1984 drafts of the OSI reference model
(either X.200 or ISO 7498)? I already have the 1984 CCITT Red book
which contains
X.200.</font><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2></font></blockquote>
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I dug around a bit and found a NASA paper that I write circa 1978;
the attached scan of one of its pages shows the "ANSI Reference
Model for Distributed Systems" as it existed then - it was just four
layers. <br><br>
Searching around the topic of "ANSI Distributed Systems Reference
Model" led to the following possible lead:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00125.html#ansi" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00125.html#ansi<br><br>
</a>ANSI/X3/SPARC Study Group--Distributed Systems "Reference
Model" draft 4, January 31, 1978. (Box 19, folder 4)<br><br>
///adrian<br>
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<font face="Tahoma"><b>Adrian J. Hooke<br>
</b></font><font face="Tahoma" size=2>Manager, NASA Space Data Standards
Program<br>
NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate<br>
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