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The Apollo DOMAIN® system is a fully operational distributed computing environment for a network of personal workstations and network servers. When it was first developed in 1980, its distributed system focus was on a file system that provided users of autonomous workstations with the same ease of file sharing they enjoyed with central time-sharing systems. While the DOMAIN system has since been extended to provide a stronger base for additional distributed system facilities, this examination of the Apollo DOMAIN system will deal primarily with the design and implementation of the DOMAIN distributed file system.
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Levine, P.H. (1987). The Apollo DOMAIN Distributed File System. In: Paker, Y., Banatre, JP., Bozyiğit, M. (eds) Distributed Operating Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46604-5_9
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