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== Headline text ==

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===Transparency===

Transparency, simply put, is the quality of a distributed system to be seen and understood as a '''single-system image'''. Transparency is the greatest overriding consideration in the high-level conceptual design of a distributed operating system. While a simple concept, the consideration of transparency directly effects decision making in every aspect of design of a distributed operating system. Depending on the degree to which transparency is implemented into a system, certain requirements and/or restrictions may be imposed upon the many design considerations, and the relationships between them.

===Inter-process communication===