Topic:
distributed process control
Topic:
hypertext as a distributed system
Topic:
implementing distributed systems and applications
Topic:
telephone system
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Subtopic: telephone system 
| Quote: examples of large decentralized systems: world telephone system, world travel reservation system, electronic financial system [»grayJN6_1986]
| | Quote: ITT 1240's physical structure is spatially distributed; its software structure is spatially, functionally, and hierarchically distributed [»bonaR_1981]
| | Quote: ITT 1240 software consists of 200 types of FMMs exchanging messages, either directly or through a digital switching network [»katzL_1981]
| | Quote: ITT 1240 software uses system support machines for frequently-used modules; invoked by procedure call instead of message [»katzL_1981]
| | Quote: most ITT 1240 FMMs are assigned to processors independently of the code [»katzL_1981]
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Subtopic: distributed data
| Quote: Google's scalable distributed file system was designed for frequent component failure and huge, append-only files [»gherS10_2003]
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Subtopic: electronic banking
| Quote: electronic-banking is an example of an open, distributed system [»hewiC4_1985]
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Subtopic: internet
| Quote: the ARPANET IMP's are one of the longest-running distributed computations [»shocJF3_1982]
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Subtopic: Clearinghouse
| Quote: Clearinghouse at Xerox: several hundred ethernets and several thousand workstations, servers and hosts [»demeA8_1987]
| | Quote: Clearinghouse is decentralized and replicated [»oppeDC7_1983]
| | Quote: a Clearinghouse contains information needed by system administrators of the distributed environment; e.g., users and workstations
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Subtopic: distributed systems
| Quote: Helix supported almost 1000 workstations, 50 file servers, and 15 LANs in 1984 [»fridM5_1985]
| | Quote: the V kernel is derived from Thoth and Verex [»cherDR4_1984]
| | Quote: designed occam for efficiency in an distributed implementation; same program is then also valid for a single computer [»mayD_1987]
| | Quote: Amoeba is an object-oriented distributed operating system [»vanrR10_1988]
| | Quote: Amoeba consists of workstations, pool processors for dynamic allocation, specialized servers, and wide-area network gateways [»vanrR10_1988]
| | Quote: Amoeba assumes the normal case is processes on different machines; optimizes for distributed system
| | Quote: DSEE uses parallel builds to reduce system build time; up to 10x faster than serial builds [»leblDB11_1987]
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Subtopic: mobile ad hoc networks (MANET)
| Quote: use fully self-organized, pairwise key management for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET); authority-based approaches do not work well, e.g., problems with certificate renewal and revocation [»vandJ4_2007]
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Subtopic: rural networks
| Quote: implement rural information network by a few computers with interactive protocol interpreters [»gammR_1982]
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Subtopic: worms
| Quote: a worm program maintains a communicating set of segments on several machines; foundation for a distributed user program [»shocJF3_1982]
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Subtopic: registry
| Quote: the Access Center can download protocols for information services into the Telecomputer; lasts at least a year [»morgC4_1982]
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Subtopic: federation
| Quote: services joins a Jini federation by multicast to the well-known port of lookup services [»waldJ7_1999]
| | Quote: a Jini server responds to requests with a proxy for interacting with the server; the Java type defines its interface
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Subtopic: tokens
Quote: Satchel uses tokens to retrieve documents any time, anywhere with mobile devices, printers, and workstations
[»lammM9_2000]
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