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Distributed systems should

  • A.meet prescribed time constraints
  • B.aim better resource sharing
  • C.aim better system utilization
  • D.aim low system overhead

Answer: B

Distributed systems should aim better resource sharing.

A distributed system links independent computers so that they appear to users as one system. Its first goal, in Tanenbaum's account, is to make resources such as files, printers, data and processing power on any machine easy to share among users and applications.

Meeting prescribed time constraints is the defining goal of a real-time system, and better utilisation and low overhead are concerns of any operating system, not the purpose of a distributed one.

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