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No generally admitted definition of distributed computer system exists. Before some understandings of this notion encountered in the professional literature will be outlined in this chapter, let us turn attention to its sources. As the first distributed network-based system, the SAGE (S emi A utomatic G round E nvironment, USA, 50. of XX century) is recognized.
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Czaja, L. (2018). Distributed Systems—Objectives, Features, Applications. In: Introduction to Distributed Computer Systems . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72023-4_2
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