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In telecommunication, the term computer conferencing has the following meanings:

1. Teleconferencing supported by one or more computers.

2. An arrangement in which access, by multiple users, to a common database is mediated by a controlling computer.

3. The interconnection of two or more computers working in a distributed manner on a common application process.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188