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From: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky)
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Subject: Re: Process vs Task
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Date: 14 Apr 89 21:51:10 GMT
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In article <8459@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>I don't think there is *ever* a reason to use a Task instead of
>a Process---or am I wrong?

There's no *necessity* that I can think of, but don't tasks carry
less overhead?


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