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{\Large {\it Discuss}: An Electronic Conferencing System\\for a Distributed
Computing Environment}\footnote{To be presented at the Winter 1989 USENIX.}
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Ken Raeburn

Project Athena

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139

raeburn@athena.mit.edu

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Jon Rochlis

Telecommunications Systems

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139

jon@bitsy.mit.edu

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William Sommerfeld

Apollo Computer, Inc.

Chelmsford, MA 01824

wesommer@athena.mit.edu

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Stan Zanarotti

Laboratory for Computer Science\footnote{This project was supported
in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the
Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research
under contract number N00014-83-K-012.}

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139

srz@lcs.mit.edu

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