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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
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Date: 3 May 90 18:44:33 GMT
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In article <1990May3.042500.18758@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
>In article <7416@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>>In article <43785@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, sl195091@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman) writes:
...
>>Youre right, Andy.
>>This drongo doesn't know the difference between multitasking and parallel
>>processing.
>
>Tell us, just what is the difference? In a strict sense, you can't have
>(true) multitasking without multiple processors...anything else is just
>program swapping; multitasking is implicitly denied in a single processor
>system. And just what is a drongo, anyway?

Multitasking refers to multiple tasks being performed but does not
imply that they are simultaneously processed by multiple processors.

Multiprocessing refers to the actual processing and does mean that
the tasks are processed simultaneously.

This confusion is a common mistake.  Please do not continue to insist
that multitasking==multiprocessing.  There are two different terms
because they are two different concepts.

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--Steve      DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own (I don't speak for Convex)
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