Distributed Systems PNIE
Tanenbaum, Andrew S, Maarten van, "Distributed Systems PNIE"
English | 2014 | pages: 638 | ISBN: 1292025522 | PDF | 11,7 mb
English | 2014 | pages: 638 | ISBN: 1292025522 | PDF | 11,7 mb
Computer systems are undergoing a revolution. From 1945, when the modern computer era began, until about 1985, computers were large and expensive. Even minicomputers cost at least tens of thousands of dollars each. As a result, most organizations had only a handful of computers, and for lack of a way to connect them, these operated independently from one another.
Starting around the the mid-1980s, however, two advances in technology began to change that situation. The first was the development of powerful microprocessors. Initially, these were 8-bit machines, but soon 16-, 32-, and 64-bit CPUs became common. Many of these had the computing power of a mainframe (i.e., large) computer, but for a fraction of the price.
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