For the past decade, “distributed computing” has been one of the biggest buzz phrases in the computer
industry. At this point in the information age, we know how to build networks; we use thousands of
engineering workstations and personal computers to do our work, instead of huge behemoths in glass-
walled rooms. Surely we ought to be able to use our networks of smaller computers to work together on
larger tasks. And we do–an act as simple as reading a web page requires the cooperation of...
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