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I believe it was Leslie Lamport who said, "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own compu

by ddp 12y ago

I believe it was Leslie Lamport who said, "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

cmeiklejohn 12y ago
The reference is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/distributed-system.txt http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/d...
- cemerick 12y ago
  Dammit, thank you. I've even read that exact message before. :-/ Post updated!
- deleted 12y ago
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