The Cambridge Distributed Computing System was an early distributed operating system developed in the 1980s at the University of Cambridge, and it is now discontinued. It grew out of the Cambridge Ring local area network, which it used to join computers together. Terminals were connected to processor banks: when a user logged in they asked the bank for a machine with a given architecture and amount of memory, and the system assigned one that acted as their personal computer for the length of the session. The machines in the bank ran the TRIPOS operating system, while special-purpose servers supplied file and other services. At its largest the system held about 90 machines.
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is an early discontinued distributed operating system
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developed in the 1980s at Cambridge University
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