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A '''Distributed operating system''' is the logical aggregation of [[operating system]] software over a collection of independent, [[Computer network|networked]], [[Inter-process communication|communicating]], and spatially disseminated computational nodes.<ref name="LSF">Tanenbaum, Andrew S. 1993 Distributed operating systems anno 1992. What have we learned so far? Distributed Systems Engineering, 1, 1 (1993), 3-10</ref> Individual system nodes each hold a discrete software subset of the global aggregate operating system. Each node-level software subset is a composition of two distinct provisioners of services.<ref name="CDS">Nutt, G. J. 1992 Centralized and Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall Press.</ref>