front-end processor

Firmware can be programmed to enable dialogue between Unix applications and the communications front-end processor.

We have to time share, so we'll let the front-end processor do it... Well, this is what a multiplexer does.

Back-end processors accept settlements from front-end processors and, via The Federal Reserve Bank, move the money from the issuing bank to the merchant bank.

The 1130 could run either as a standalone processor or as a front-end processor connected to a remote System/360.

A second alternative is to use a standard Unix box as the front-end processor, which can be slow, given that it is a general purpose box rather than a comms controller.

With a front-end processor, it has a distributed memory and message passing system.

Chapter 4 describes the evaluation of the lexical access component over data provided by the Alvey project's front-end processor.

One of the major criticisms of the ARPA systems concerned the poor performance of the front-end processors.

At the University of Michigan the front-end processor was known as the Data Concentrator (DC).

Brough knew that this was not possible for him without a powerful front-end processor to work on the access code combinations, but said nothing.