what is the difference between multitasking & multiprocessing?
The main big difference is between multitasking and both multithreading & multiprocessing: multitasking is done entirely at the software level, where the other two involve hardware. I highly recommend reading the book âComputer architecture: a qua...
Multiprocessing / multitasking Multiprocessing is the use oftwo or more processors in a single computer.
Multitasking, in an operating system, is allowing a user to perform more than one computer task (such as the operation of an application program) at a time. The operating system is able to keep track of where you are in these tasks and go from one to the other without losing information.