Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!darkstar!lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de From: borghoff@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Uwe Borghoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.research Subject: distributed systems survey Message-ID: <6187@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 20 Aug 90 08:59:45 GMT Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany Lines: 15 Approved: comp-os-research@jupiter.ucsc.edu 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.