Multiple choice technology operating systems

When the result of a computation depends on the speed of the processes involved, there is said to be

  1. Cycle Stealing

  2. Race condition

  3. Time lock

  4. Deadlock
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B Correct answer
Explanation

A race condition occurs when the system's substantive behavior or output is dependent on the sequence or timing of uncontrollable events like process execution speeds. Cycle stealing relates to direct memory access sharing, time locks restrict access durations, and deadlocks are circular waits that block execution entirely.

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