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Introduction to Distributed Systems

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Introduction to Distributed Systems
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Publisher: arXiv
Number of pages: 23

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This text provides an overview of distributed computing systems. The definition, architecture, characteristics of distributed systems and the various distributed computing fallacies are discussed in the beginning. Finally, discusses client/server computing, World Wide Web and types of distributed systems.

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