I'm a student, and am reading a lot of older papers about distributed systems for an OS class. It seems like the word "transparent" is used to refer to a system which hides information to the user, like a black box.[0] Why is this the case? can anyone actually explain why this does in fact make sense or is it just horrible naming?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(human%E2%80%93computer_interaction)
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