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'''''This is a more in-depth outline of the "IntroductionLead" section text being developed, and will be installed very soon...'''''

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DOS is an OS

<br />{{pad|2em}} isolates and manages lower-level complexities of Hware and resources into abstractions

<br />{{pad|2em}} organizes these abstractions, and presents higher-level interfaces of Hware and resources to apps and users

<br />{{pad|2em}} OS is the complex mapping of these abstractions to interfaces

<br />{{pad|2em}} in doing so, the OS presents itself as unified and simplified service to these mappings

<br />{{pad|2em}} DOS, asin suchthis context, appears no different than would a centralized OS

<br />{{pad|2em}} but in fact, is much different

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<br />{{pad|2em}} OS most often depicted as a discrete organizational container, positioned independently between Hware and app/programmer/etc.

<br />{{pad|2em}} DOS, presented in a similar fashion would incorporate Hware within its organizational container

<br />{{pad|4em}} it is the Hware that exhibits differing degrees of geo-spatial separation; DOSs distributed quality

<br />{{pad|4em}} to provide consistent and unified interface to this abstraction, Hware must be inclusiveconsidered internal to the idea of ODSDOS

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<br />{{pad|2em}} This is a very important distinction, as

<br />{{pad|4em}} it allows a DOS to appear to a user as would a standard centralized OS; singular and local

<br />{{pad|4em}} it makes possible many additional and beneficial services (described in later section)

<br />{{pad|4em}} it will serve differentiate DOS from other decentralized OSs (later)

<br />{{pad|6em}} again, it is solely thethis attribute of Hware separationdissemination that allows for these benefits

<br />{{pad|6em}} however, a complex internal orchestration of this attribute is required to realize these benefits

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== Overview ==

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An approach to describing the unique nature of DOS

<br />{{pad|2em}} This is a very important distinction, as

<br />{{pad|2em}} A NetworkDistributed OS is decentralized, but nothas distributedadditional (asspecific seenattributes; below)it is distributed

<br />{{pad|4em}} it will serve differentiate DOS from other decentralized OSs (later)

<br />{{pad|4em}} itcompared makesto possiblea manystandard additionalOS andwhich beneficialis servicescentralized (described in a laterand section)local

<br />{{pad|4em}} or a Network OS which is decentralized, and while possibly spatially scattered, is not distributed

<br />{{pad|6em}} it is solely the attribute of Hware separation that allows these benefits

<br />{{pad|6em}} it is the complex orchestrated utilization of Hware separation that instantiates these benefits

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<br />{{pad|2em}} In approach to describingdemonstrate, theconsider naturean ofOSs DOS,constituent willelement alsoorganization: differentiatedecentralized fromvs. other decentralized OSsdistributed

<br />{{pad|2em}} A Network OS is decentralized, but not distributed (as seen below)

<br />{{pad|2em}} OS constituent element organization: decentralized vs. distributed

<br />{{pad|4em}} three tightly interrelated aspects to this organization:

<br />{{pad|6em}} organizational hierarchy, degree of interconnection, sphere of control