The evolution of distributed systems

The software for this type of transparent networked systems is already available but it will take some time until the conventional hardware can be replaced and until this evolution has occurred within the brains of all users and especially of all managers of computer systems. 

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NIH Resource, CASE Center and Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Center for Science and Technology, Syracuse, New York 13244-4100, USA 

Most recently, PCs have been gaining the capabilities of workstation computers and indeed, current workstation computers are also emulating PC-DOS to support applications developed for the smaller computers. This trend should be fully developed by 1992-1993 when high-end PCs will achieve capabilities as shown in Table 10.2. 

Program memory limits usually 640K usually 1 GByte 

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