Distributed operating system
ID: distributed-operating-system
A distributed operating system (DOS) is a type of operating system that manages a collection of independent computers and makes them appear to the users as a single coherent system. The key features of a distributed operating system include: 1. **Transparency**: It aims to hide the complexities and variations of the underlying hardware and network from the users and applications. This includes location transparency, migration transparency, replication transparency, and failure transparency.
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