Quick Answer: What Is the Function of Distributed Operating System?
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A distributed operating system provides the same functionality and interface as a monolithic operating system. That is, for both systems the goal is to make the computing and storage facilities as provided by the hardware available to the users of the system.

Which of the following is the function of distributed operating system?

A distributed operating system manages the system shared resources used by multiple processes, the process scheduling activity (how processes are allocating on available processors), the communication and synchronization between running processes and so on.

Where distributed operating system is used?

Distributed Operating System is one of the important type of operating system. Multiple central processors are used by Distributed systems to serve multiple real-time applications and multiple users. Accordingly, Data processing jobs are distributed among the processors.

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