Distributed operating systems

High-Integrity System Specification and Design

“…Others distinguish the two not on the lines of implementation but on the lines of the view of computation provided to users: in a DOS it is generally transparent while in a NOS it is not; special utilities are needed to use network facilities. See [34] for some examples of distributed operating systems. Further information on distributed systems in general may be found in [189], and [267] contains large bibliographies on the subject.…”