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Distributed operating systems
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Distributed operating systems have many aspects in common with centralized ones, but they also differ in certain ways. This paper is intended as an introduction to distributed operating systems, and especially to current university research about them. After a discussion of what constitutes a distributed operating system and how it is distinguished from a computer network, various key design issues are discussed. Then several examples of current research projects are examined in some detail, namely, the Cambridge Distributed Computing System, Amoeba, V, and Eden.
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- Authors
- Tanenbaum, A. S., & Van Renesse, R.
- Venue
- ACM Computing Surveys
- Published
- 1985-12-10
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 419-470
- ISSN
- 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7341
- OpenAlex
- W2039179345
- Cited by
- 990
- References
- 47
- FWCI
- 26.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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