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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by harperlee on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @10:53AM (#30856020)
Ideally a peripheral crashing should not crash the whole system.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by catern on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:20AM (#30856379)
And indeed it does not: Modern operating systems like Linux can perfectly well deal with all kinds of devices crashing or disappearing at runtime. Just like in larger distributed systems.
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