borghoff@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Uwe Borghoff) (08/21/90)
Archive-name: distributed-systems/20-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: borghoff@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Uwe Borghoff) Original-subject: distributed systems survey Archive-site: thumper.bellcore.com [128.96.41.1] Archive-directory: /pub/report Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Distributed Systems: A Comprehensive Survey by U. Borghoff and K. Nast-Kolb. A 85 pages long report surveys about a hundred of distributed file/operating systems and gives 389 references to the literature. We know that a comprehensive survey could not be complete and up-to-date. We offer apologies in advance for any omissions that may exist. A compressed Postscript version of this report is on a US-site at thumper (128.96.41.1) in the file pub/report/dssurvey.ps.Z as well as on a German-site at gshalle3 (131.159.0.10) in the file report/dssurvey.ps.Z You can get it on both hosts via ftp anonymous.