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Your computer is a distributed system
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Most computers are essentially a distributed system internally,
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A Note on Distributed Computing MIT 1994
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... objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space
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... distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a different model of memory access, and take into account issues of concurrency and partial failure.
- differences are intractable - they are different domains
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