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distrib'uted da'ta proc"essing



Computers.
a method of organizing data processing that uses a central computer in combination with smaller local computers or terminals, which communicate with the central computer and perhaps with one another. Also called DDP.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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