At the Huawei Developer Conference today, Huawei launched HarmonyOS – a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system designed to deliver a cohesive user experience across all devices and ...

One of Plan 9's biggest goals was to build a distributed operating system. PCs and workstations served as terminals to access compute servers and file servers. You can read all about it in the ...

Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios.

The distributed operating system enables dynamic configuration so that multicore computers with/without local hard disks are dynamically connected or disconnected in response to the application's ...

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Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.