Mail delivered to remote mailbox. Requires
global name space to identify users, transport mechanisms to get
mail to mailbox
Distributed Information - WWW
Remote information hidden below
hypertext browser. Caching and other features operate transparently
Distributed File System
Files stored on many machines,
generally not machine you're working on. Files accessed
transparently by OS knowing they're remote and doing remote
operations on them such as read and write e.g. Network File System
(NFS)
