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6 Development of Standard Commercial versus Special Commercial Products
Pages 39-42

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... It is expected that performance of commercial products will be optimized to increase competitiveness. User cost wild be lower because of a large commercial customer base over which to amortize costs for development, continuous improvements, and maintenance.
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... This committee believes that, in general, future standard data transmission products will be either TP-4 or vendor-unique protocols and TOP will be a special product. STANDARD VERSUS SP EC IAL PRODUCT Within the OS]
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... The department may get additional useful products because vendors integrate the protocol function into their corporate software and hardware product lines. Thus the DOD may be able eventually to use standard com- mercial software application products that are built on top of, and thereby take advantage of, the transport protocols.
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