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Distributed Operating Systems

So far we have concentrated on the organization of uniprocessor systems. As we saw earlier, a (symmetric) mutiprocessor OS is structured like a uniprocessor system - though we do need changes to scheduling and other components of the system. We now consider the organization systems running on multiple computers with local memories and connected by a network.




Prasun Dewan
Tue Apr 30 11:14:08 EDT 2002