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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Preemption (computing) (redirect from Pre-emptive multitasking)
provided preemptive multitasking on 1980s-era personal computers. Later MS-DOS compatible systems natively supporting preemptive multitasking/multithreading...
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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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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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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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Operating system (redirect from Computer operating sysem)
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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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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Blocking (computing) (redirect from Blocking (computer science))
advanced from blocked state to an imminent one, such as runnable. In a multitasking computer system, individual tasks, or threads of execution, must share the...
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Process (computing) (redirect from Computer process)
as time-sharing, computer networks, and multiple-CPU shared memory computers, the old "multiprogramming" gave way to true multitasking, multiprocessing...
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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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Workstation (redirect from Computer workstation)
higher performance than mainstream personal computers, especially in CPU, graphics, memory, and multitasking. Workstations are optimized for the visualization...
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digital technology. daemon In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon (/ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/) is a computer program that runs as a background...
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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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In a multitasking computer system, processes may occupy a variety of states. These distinct states may not be recognized as such by the operating system...
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Multi-task learning (redirect from Evolutionary multitasking)
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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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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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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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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Computer rage refers to negative psychological responses towards a computer due to heightened anger or frustration. Examples of computer rage include cursing...
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Embedded system (redirect from Embeded computer)
This method brings the system close to a multitasking kernel with discrete processes. Cooperative multitasking is very similar to the simple control loop...
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PC-MOS/386 (section Multitask/Multiuser commands)
PC-MOS/386 is a multi-user, multitasking computer operating system produced by The Software Link (TSL), announced at COMDEX in November 1986 for February...
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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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it comes to Facebook there may be more to bad memory than just multitasking". Computers in Human Behavior. 29 (6): 2179–2182. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.04...
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than not this was traditionally a consequence of simple hardware or non-multitasking operating systems. Polling is often intimately involved with very low-level...
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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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simultaneous computation; data safety in any multitasking or multithreaded environment. Concurrency (computer science) – Computing using multiple concurrent...
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Educational technology (redirect from Computer based training)
technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning...
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by a multitasking "Master program" operating system, which allowed concurrent running of as many as 12 application programs. Users of LEO computers programmed...
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