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the impossibility of two parties reaching certain agreement over an unreliable channel, since any final acknowledgment could itself be lost.

In distributed computing, two generals problem refers to the impossibility of two parties reaching certain agreement over an unreliable channel, since any final acknowledgment could itself be lost. This meaning comes from Akkoyunlu (1975) in Proceedings of the fifth symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '75.[1]

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  1. Akkoyunlu, E. A., Ekanadham, K., & Huber, R. V. (1975). Some constraints and tradeoffs in the design of network communications. Proceedings of the fifth symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '75. https://doi.org/10.1145/800213.806523

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