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From: darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: distributed system
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Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 01:18:53 EST
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The definition I like best calls a system distributed if there is more
than one autonomous computation agent in the system. I forget who
proposed this definition, it might have been Philip Enslow.

Then one can argue about what constitutes computation. Is an attached
I/O processor an autonomous computation agent? Oh well...

	Ken