How has distributed computing affected operating system design?
What will be an ideal response?
With distributed computing, operating systems manage resources outside a single computer. For example, data could be accessed from, and processes could be run on, remote computers. This required that operating systems designers become familiar with networking issues, which we discuss in Chapter 16, Introduction to Networking.
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