A data communications system comprises a bus for transferring data, a plurality of devices sharing the bus by time-division multiplexing, wherein time is divided into time slots and a frame is assembled with a predetermined number of time slots, a processor for assigning to each of t
An apparatus for interfacing a data processing system with n.times.N number of data communications network(s) includes N number of interface units, a pair of control units, and linking units, both n and N being positive integer, respectively. The interface units coordinate a data exchang