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As small machines proliferate and more and more information is kept in digital form, the desire to share that information will correspondingly increase. This desire, together with the architectural plans of many office automation vendors to provide their products in the form of multiple machines networked together, insures that distributed systems will become increasingly important. While compatibility with the past has been a terrible sword hanging over the heads of major mainframe manufacturers, it may be an even more binding force in some respects in the distributed system market, especially those segments where multiple vendors are involved. It is often more difficult to motivate and coordinate change in a marketplace than within a single, albeit large, company.
Therefore, proper consideration of the kind of issues raised in this discussion is all the more important.
This research was supported in part by ARPA Research Contract DSS MDA-903-77-C--0211.
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Popek, G.J. (1981). Notes on distributed systems of microprocessors. In: Flynn, M.J., Harris, N.R., McCarthy, D.P. (eds) Microcomputer System Design. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11172-7_9
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