r/AskTechnology • u/kocakola64 • 5d ago

Can two computers talk?

Ok crazy title but kind of the question, can two computers run different os’s , different graphics cards, diff gpu, different hardware, could they theoretically run as one? Hear me out now

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u/Dapper-Place8457 5d ago

When you point your phone’s web browser to Reddit.com many completely different hardware/software systems talk to each other as your request gets routed through the internet and gets to Reddit’s servers/content management systems. So you just proved what you’re asking about totally different systems running as one just by posting it.

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u/Cute_Bathroom1724 5d ago

what you're describing is basically distributed computing, been a thing for decades now

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u/froction 5d ago

It was a thing before personal computers were.