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    multiprocessor computers, multitasking allows many more tasks to be run than there are CPUs. Multitasking is a common feature of computer operating systems...
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  • Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a computer multitasking technique in which the operating system never initiates...
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  • Look up multitasking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Multitasking or task switching may refer to: Computer multitasking, the concurrent execution...
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    further speed up a single thread or single program, most computer systems are actually multitasking among multiple threads or programs. Thus, techniques that...
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  • provided preemptive multitasking on 1980s-era personal computers. Later MS-DOS compatible systems natively supporting preemptive multitasking/multithreading...
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    Interrupt (redirect from Computer interrupt)
    time-sensitive attention. Interrupts are also commonly used to implement computer multitasking and system calls, especially in real-time computing. Systems that...
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    principal use for multitasking was to allow many people to share the same computer. Seemingly, multitasking would cause a computer that is switching between...
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    George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Neurocluster Brain Model. Computer multitasking Concurrency (computer science) Content Addressable Parallel Processor List...
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  • part of the execution model of a computer system; the concept of scheduling makes it possible to have computer multitasking with a single central processing...
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    modeling hardware). Computer programming portal Clone (Linux system call) Communicating sequential processes Computer multitasking Multi-core (computing)...
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    Variants of the OS-9 multitasking operating system were available from third parties. Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80 Color Computer in July 1980 as...
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    as time-sharing, computer networks, and multiple-CPU shared memory computers, the old "multiprogramming" gave way to true multitasking, multiprocessing...
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    is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating...
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    Media multitasking is the concurrent use of multiple digital media streams. Media multitasking has been associated with depressive symptoms and social...
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  • conditions at a point in time close to the offending operation. In a multitasking system, each thread of execution will typically have its own stack. If...
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    higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially in CPU, graphics, memory, and multitasking. Workstations are optimized for the visualization...
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    far more stable Unix foundation, with memory protection and preemptive multitasking. Blue Box became the Classic environment, and Yellow Box was renamed...
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    Amiga (redirect from Amiga (computer))
    system, providing pre-emptive multitasking with prioritised round-robin scheduling. It enabled true pre-emptive multitasking in as little as 256 KB of free...
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  • Ong, Y. S., & Gupta, A. (2016). Evolutionary multitasking: a computer science view of cognitive multitasking. Cognitive Computation, 8(2), 125-142. Feng...
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  • disk read-and-write head. Computers run instructions in the context of a process. In the context of computer multitasking, the execution of the process...
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    performed in a multitasking time-sharing arrangement, with interfaces to the various devices it was expected to control. When the computer revolution was...
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    assigned in computer multitasking and multiprocessing operating system design. This kind of scheduling is incorporated into the computer program, and...
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    Apple Inc. (redirect from Apple computer)
    built for multitasking (running several applications at once). The company attempted to correct this by introducing cooperative multitasking in System...
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  • simultaneous computation; data safety in any multitasking or multithreaded environment. Concurrency (computer science) – Computing using multiple concurrent...
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    self-perception of being good at multitasking or getting more done while multitasking is frequently inaccurate. Multitasking is mentally and physically stressful...
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    Amiga 1000 (category Computer-related introductions in 1985)
    advanced graphics and sound systems in its class. It runs a preemptive multitasking operating system that fits into 256 KB of read-only memory and was shipped...
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    the disabling of hyper-threading on all devices. Barrel processor Computer multitasking Multi-core processor Stokes, Jon (3 October 2002). "Introduction...
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    multitasking operating system. Eventually, due to the influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market, personal computers and home computers lost...
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    A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication link between the brain's electrical activity...
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    – multiuser multitasking DOS clone since 1987 VM/386 – multiuser multitasking DOS environment since 1987 TopView – DOS-based multitasking environment...
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