The Cambridge Model Distributed System
Maurice Vincent Wilkes, Roger M. Needham · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1980
This paper contains a description of the Cambridge Model Distributed System (CMDS).CMDS sets out to provide, by means of a number of interconnected mini-and microcomputers, facilities that are similar to those provided by a time-sharing system.A user logs-in in the usual manner but, instead of being given a share of the capacity of a central mainframe, he is allocated one of the computers on the system.During the remainder of his session he has the exclusive use of that computer just as though it were his personal minicomputer.In suitable circumstances he may be allocated the use of more than one computer.