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From: Stephen Macdonald
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <35F56172.9909183A@xype.com>, Korosec Samo <samo@xype.com>
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>> These terms often get used to varying degrees, but generally *multitasking*
>> is the apparent execution of more than one program, which *is* possible
>> with only one CPU.
>
>but not at once, you can just switch between them in certain time
>intervals,
>so you run a program, save registers, load other program, run it, save
>regs,
>load previous regs, continue previous program,... it's not the
>"multitasking"
>but "something-that-looks-like-multitasking"

Yes, that *IS* the definition of "multitasking". The non-technical user
is unaware of how many processors there are, or that there is a context
switch between tasks.

-- 

Stephen Macdonald

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From: Stephen Macdonald <stephen@rtsoft.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
Date: 1998/09/08
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