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Is this "could" past tense of "can" or not?

"Migration transparency means that resources must be free to move from one location to another without having their names change. In the example of Fig. 1-10 we saw how server directories could be mounted in arbitrary places in the clients' directory hierarchy. "

Distributed Operating Systems, Tanenbaum

  

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anonymous Is this "could" past tense of "can" Yes, with the additional nuance that the server directories were successfully mounted in these arbitrary places. CJ

  • anonymous Is this "could" past tense of "can" Yes, with the additional nuance that the server directories were successfully mounted in these arbitrary places.
  • CJ
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anonymousIs this "could" past tense of "can"

Yes, with the additional nuance that the server directories were successfully mounted in these arbitrary places.

CJ

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