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Started by darrell
Sat, 21 Feb 1987 09:39
Re: definitions of distributed
Author: darrell
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1987 09:39
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1987 09:39
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I think the only fully realistic (although not the only useful) definition
of a distributed system is "something that runs on more than one processor
and is not sufficiently well-understood to be a routine programming project".
As soon as we understand how to do something reasonably well, people start
saying "well, that's not *really* a distributed system, it's just a <xxx>",
where fifteen years ago everyone would have agreed that <xxx> would constitute
a type of distributed system.
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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Darrell Long
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093
ARPA: Darrell@Beowulf.UCSD.EDU UUCP: darrell@sdcsvax.uucp
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