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A computer can conveniently be considered to be made up of three parts excluding any man-machine interfaces such as keyboard, screen, printers, etc. These three parts are the central processor, the main memory and the backing store. A simple representation of such a system is shown in figure 16.1.
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16.10 References
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Ferguson M., ‘Parallel Query and Transaction Processing with Relational Databases’ UKOUG Conference, Bournemouth, 1993.(The author is grateful to Mr Ferguson for permission to include in this chapter copies of slides used in his presentation.)
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Beynon-Davies, P. (1996). Parallel Computers for Database Systems. In: Database Systems. Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13722-0_16
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