Explain how concurrent computing might lead to an issue in the operating system and what that problem can be.

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Explain how concurrent computing might lead to an issue in the operating system and what that problem can be.

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Talk about a problem that arises from concurrent processing in an operating system.

Operating systems are made more difficult by concurrent processing in a number of ways.

 A time-sharing method has to be devised in order to provide each of the system's multiple processes access.

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