At that time it was a loose term. Alohanet was one of the first that really solidified the term and application. Generally there was/are two basic classes host and client or Peer to Peer. The Altair<>CDC was more like the first than second. When I was doing it I had been attempting to have facilities not unlike VMS/DECnet. The goal was from any one machine I could connect, manage and use files from another machine and the files could exist on any enabled machine (that had the requested resource). The goal I achieved was a diskless machine could boot from one, use files from another and the actual terminal was connected to a third, plus print to a fourth machine that had the printer (and could buffer the transfer). The basic scheme was actually simple but getting CSMA/CD between my ears the hard part. It was node to node (addressed) conectivity with systems added to the net able to broadcast it's presence. The only thing was it was all and only CP/M. Allison