These included Portable Distributed Objects ( PDO ), which allowed easy remote invocation, and Enterprise Objects Framework, a powerful object-relational database system.

Portable Distributed Objects, or PDO, is a programming API for creating object-oriented code that can be executed remotely on a network of computers.

Microsoft was evolving OLE into the Component Object Model ( COM ) and a similar distributed version called DCOM, IBM had their System Object Model ( SOM / DSOM ), Sun Microsystems was promoting their Distributed Objects Everywhere, and there were a host of smaller players as well.

In addition to the OS X platform, there is GNUstep, which has its own implementation of Distributed Objects.

* Distributed Objects — a guide by Apple

Examples include IBM's System Object Model ( SOM / DSOM ), Sun Microsystems ' Distributed Objects Everywhere ( DOE ), NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects ( PDO ), Digital's ObjectBroker, Microsoft's Component Object Model ( COM / DCOM ), and any number of CORBA-based systems.

* Building Distributed OO Applications: Modula-3 Objects at Work.

* Distributed Objects Everywhere, a distributed computing project by Sun Microsystems

* Connected Data Objects, a free implementation of a Distributed Shared Model on top of the Eclipse Modeling Framework

* Portable Distributed Objects, a version of Cocoa's Distributed Objects for remote use

The two would communicate with NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects technology, which was known as Distributed Objects Everywhere ( DOE ), later released as NEO.

The flexibility offered by SOM was considered worth the trouble by almost all, but similar systems, such as Sun Microsystems ' Distributed Objects Everywhere, also supported full inheritance.

NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects avoided these issues via a strong versioning system, allowing library authors to ship new versions along with the old, thereby guaranteeing backward compatibility for the small cost of disk space.

At the time there were a number of major projects to deliver such a system, including IBM's System Object Model ( SOM / DSOM ), NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects, Microsoft's Component Object Model ( COM / DCOM ) and many CORBA flavors.

The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

According to CiteSeer, Ian Clarke's " Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System " was the most cited computer science paper of 2000.

" Distributed by Dot Records, " Jennie Lee " was released in mid-April, entered the charts on May 10, 1958, the same day they appeared on ABC's Dick Clark Show.

In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe and Boggs published a seminal paper, " Ethernet: Distributed Packet-Switching For Local Computer Networks.

Weighted reference counting was independently devised by Bevan, in the paper Distributed garbage collection using reference counting, and Watson, in the paper An efficient garbage collection scheme for parallel computer architectures, both in 1987.

Distributed systems gained sway as a way to design systems, and the Java programming language was introduced with its own virtual machine as another step in abstraction.

In version 5. 0, the functionality of VBScript was increased with new features such as: regular expressions ; classes ; the With statement ; the Eval, Execute, and ExecuteGlobal functions to evaluate and execute script commands built during the execution of another script ; a function-pointer system via GetRef, and Distributed COM ( DCOM ) support.

1984, multimode fiber was re-purposed for use in LANs, such as Fiber Distributed Date Interface ( FDDI ), then under development.

Distributed control meant there was no common point of failure, but also meant that the setup stage lasted for the ten seconds or so the caller took to dial the required number.

Distributed. net is actively searching for the optimal order-27 ruler ; in May 2009, the expected time to discover it was estimated at about seven years.

FLASK, in turn, was based on DTOS, a Mach-derived Distributed Trusted Operating System, as well as Trusted Mach, a research project from Trusted Information Systems that had an influence on the design and implementation of DTOS.

The addition of the " D " to COM was due to extensive use of DCE / RPC ( Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Calls ) – more specifically Microsoft's enhanced version, known as MSRPC.

* Distributed garbage collection – ensuring that references held by clients of interfaces are released when, for example, the client process crashed, or the network connection was lost.

Then, in 1991, researchers at the University of California, Davis created a prototype Distributed Intrusion Detection System ( DIDS ), which was also an expert system.

Distributed Proofreaders was founded by Charles Franks in 2000 as an independent site to assist Project Gutenberg.

On 8 November 2002, Distributed Proofreaders was slashdotted, and more than 4, 000 new members joined in one day, causing an influx of new proofreaders and software developers, which helped to greatly increase the quantity and quality of e-text production.

Distributed Proofreaders posted their 5, 000th text to Project Gutenberg in October 2004, in March 2007, the 10, 000th DP-produced e-text was posted to Project Gutenberg, in May 2009, the 15, 000th DP-produced e-text was posted to Project Gutenberg, and in April 2011, the 20, 000th DP-produced e-text was posted to Project Gutenberg.

On 31 July 2006, the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation was formed to provide Distributed Proofreaders with its own legal entity and not-for-profit status.

Although it was established by members of the original Distributed Proofreaders site, it is a separate entity.

AIX v2 included full TCP / IP networking, as well as SNA and two networking file systems: NFS, licensed from Sun Microsystems, and Distributed Services ( DS ).

* Distributed Application Specification Language, developed by Sun Microsystems

AIX v2 included full TCP / IP networking support, as well as SNA, and two networking file systems: NFS, licensed from Sun Microsystems, and Distributed Services or DS.

* Distributed computing project yoyo @ Home Subproject ECM is a program for Elliptic Curve Factorization which is used by a couple of projects to find factors for different kind of numbers.

Distributed Proofreaders ( commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP ) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors.

In Clarke's final year at Edinburgh, he completed his " final year project ", entitled " A Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System ".

Distributed Language Translation or Distribuita Lingvo-Tradukado ( DLT ) was a project to develop an interlingual machine translation system for twelve European languages.

In 1994, the French cars manufacturers Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroën, which had a similar project called VDX ( Vehicle Distributed eXecutive ), joined the consortium.

The book was the 5, 000th e-book to be provided by the Distributed Proofreaders project, to Project Gutenberg, released on August 21, 2004.

* Advanced Distributed File System, a defunct IBM file system project

Esperanto was proposed as a pivot language in the Distributed Language Translation project and has been used in this way in the Majstro Tradukvortaro at the Esperanto website Majstro. com.

Denmark's Edison project, an abbreviation for ' Electric vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated market using Sustainable energy and Open Networks ' is an ongoing partially state funded research project on the island of Bornholm in Eastern Denmark.

The Portable Open Source Security Elements, or POSSE project, was a co-operative venture between the University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory, the OpenBSD project and others.

Colleagues in the POSSE project included Jonathan M. Smith of the University of Pennsylvania ; Theo de Raadt, project founder and leader of OpenBSD ; Michael B. Greenwald, assistant professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania ; Sotiris Ioannidis and Stefan Miltchev, graduate students at the Distributed Systems Lab of the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania ; Ben Laurie, a former mathematician at Cambridge University and technical director of AL Digital Ltd, a director of the Apache Software Foundation and core team member of the OpenSSL Group ; and Angelos Keromytis, at the time an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University and an OpenBSD core developer.

* The OpenXDAS Distributed Auditing Service project

In 2004, the German project was at the center of a controversy, because it had started running a proofreading website based on the Distributed Proofreaders software, without mentioning that the resulting books would not be as free as those of the American project.