Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: ACM Computing Surveys
DOI: 10.1145/6041.6074
Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Robbert Van Renesse
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2039179345