{HEAD ~ The advantages} of heterogeneity and concurrency of the distributed system are thus extended to {TAIL ~ its switched communications links} with external switched networks 
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{ HEAD ~ The advantages } of heterogeneity and concurrency of the distributed system are thus extended to { TAIL ~ its switched communications links } with external switched networks
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