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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 4 Question 27 (Page No. 335)

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Oliver Owl’s night job at the university computing center is to change the tapes used for overnight data backups. While waiting for each tape to complete, he works on writing his thesis that proves Shakespeare’s plays were written by extraterrestrial visitors. His text processor runs on the system being backed up since that is the only one they have. Is there a problem with this arrangement?

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