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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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One way or the other

What does the bolded part mean?

"This definition has several important aspects. The first one is that a distributed system consists of components (i.e., computers) that are autonomous. A second aspect is that users (be they people or programs) think they are dealing with a single system. This means that one way or the other the autonomous components need to collaborate. "

  

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anonymous This means that one way or the other the autonomous components need to collaborate. ~ This means that by some method or by another method (whatever method it may be) the independent parts need to work together. ~ We infer from this that there must be some way by which the independent parts can work together.

  • anonymous This means that one way or the other the autonomous components need to collaborate.
  • ~ This means that by some method or by another method (whatever method it may be) the independent parts need to work together.
  • ~ We infer from this that there must be some way by which the independent parts can work together.
  • In short, 'one way or the other' (usually 'one way or another') means 'somehow', that is, 'in some unspecified way'.
  • CJ
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anonymousThis means that one way or the other the autonomous components need to collaborate.

~ This means that by some method or by another method (whatever method it may be) the independent parts need to work together.
~ We infer from this that there must be some way by which the independent parts can work together.

In short, 'one way or the othe

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