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Absence of shared memory is the defining characteristic of a distributed system. Processes in such a system coordinate by reading and writing shared objects called communications channels. Thus, concurrent programs for distributed systems, or distributed programs, are fundamentally no different from other concurrent programs: all use shared objects of one sort or another for synchronization and communication.
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Schneider, F.B. (1997). Message Passing and Distributed Programming. In: On Concurrent Programming. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1830-2_11
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