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==History==

Research and experimentation efforts began in earnest in the 1970s and continued through the 1990s, with focused interest peaking in the late 1980s. A number of distributed operating systems were introduced during this period; however, very few of these implementations achieved even modest commercial success.

Fundamental and pioneering implementations of primitive distributed operating system component concepts date to the early 1950s.<ref name=dyseac>{{cite journal |last1=Leiner |first1=Alan L. |title=System Specifications for the DYSEAC |journal=Journal of the ACM |date=April 1954 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=57–81 |doi=10.1145/320772.320773 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=lincoln_tx2>{{cite conference |title=The Lincoln TX-2 Input-Output System |first=James W. |last=Forgie |date=February 26–28, 1957 |conference=Western Joint Computer Conference: Techniques for Reliability |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |___location=Los Angeles, California |pages=156–160 |isbn=9781450378611 |doi=10.1145/1455567.1455594 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=intercomm_cells>{{cite conference |author=C. Y. Lee |title=Intercommunicating cells, basis for a distributed logic computer |date=December 4–6, 1962 |conference=Fall Joint Computer Conference |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |___location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |pages=130–136 |doi=10.1145/1461518.1461531 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Some of these individual steps were not focused directly on distributed computing, and at the time, many may not have realized their important impact. These pioneering efforts laid important groundwork, and inspired continued research in areas related to distributed computing.<ref name="Dreyfus_1958_Gamma60">{{citation |title=System design of the Gamma 60 |author-first=Phillippe |author-last=Dreyfus |author-link=Philippe Dreyfus |work=Proceedings of the May 6–8, 1958, [[Western Joint Computer Conference]]: Contrasts in Computers |___location=Los Angeles |date=1958-05-08 |orig-year=1958-05-06 |id=IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western) |publication-place=ACM, New York, NY, USA |pages=130–133 |url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1958/5052/00/50520130.pdf |access-date=2017-04-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403224547/https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1958/5052/00/50520130.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-03}}</ref><ref>Leiner, A. L., Notz, W. A., Smith, J. L., and Weinberger, A. 1958. Organizing a network of computers to meet deadlines. In Papers and Discussions Presented At the December 9–13, 1957, Eastern Joint Computer Conference: Computers with Deadlines To Meet (Washington, D.C., December 09–13, 1957). IRE-ACM-AIEE '57</ref><ref>Leiner, A. L., Smith, J. L., Notz, W. A., and Weinberger, A. 1958. PILOT, the NBS multicomputer system. In Papers and Discussions Presented At the December 3–5, 1958, Eastern Joint Computer Conference: Modern Computers: Objectives, Designs, Applications (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 03–05, 1958). AIEE-ACM-IRE '58 (Eastern). ACM, New York, NY, 71-75.</ref><ref>Bauer, W. F. 1958. Computer design from the programmer's viewpoint. In Papers and Discussions Presented At the December 3–5, 1958, Eastern Joint Computer Conference: Modern Computers: Objectives, Designs, Applications (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 03–05, 1958). AIEE-ACM-IRE '58 (Eastern). ACM, New York, NY, 46-51.</ref><ref>Leiner, A. L., Notz, W. A., Smith, J. L., and Weinberger, A. 1959. PILOT—A New Multiple Computer System. J. ACM 6, 3 (Jul. 1959), 313-335.</ref><ref>Estrin, G. 1960. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1460361.1460365 Organization of computer systems: the fixed plus variable structure computer]. In Papers Presented At the May 3–5, 1960, Western Joint IRE-AIEE-ACM Computer Conference (San Francisco, California, May 03–05, 1960). IRE-AIEE-ACM '60 (Western). ACM, New York, NY, 33-40.</ref>