33 ;;Quote: office organizations are creative problem solvers, bargainers, and exception handlers

35 ;;Quote: in a distributed system, the same name may be used by different users for different objects, and different names may be used for the same object

38 ;;Quote: in a message-passing system, the sender can use procedure call semantics while the receiver use message queue semantics

38 ;;Quote: the sender blocks while the receiver can process messages in any order or control the sender

38 ;;Quote: handle concurrency with a manager process that only receives and replies to messages, and several helper processes

38 ;;Quote: if a process can do asynchronous activity after a message send, it should use a new, helper process and time-out process

38 ;;Quote: a message can include a forwarding address for replies; used by name servers, exception handlers, printer servers

38 ;;Quote: two different kinds of messages--many small, fast control messages and fewer, larger data transfers

45 ;;Quote: differing performance requirements for centralized vs. distributed systems; e.g., compare idle locomotives with idle cars

45 ;;Quote: with parity and memory correction, a bad bit in memory does not break a machine

46 ;;Quote: an Ethernet interface board can have serious hardware problems yet perform well; due to high-level protocols for fault handling