What is multi-tasking, multi-programming,multi-threading?

Answer Posted / disha

Multiprogramming is the technique of running several
programs at a time using timesharing. It allows a computer
to do several things at the same time. Multiprogramming
creates logical parallelism. The concept of
multiprogramming is that the operating system keeps several
jobs in memory simultaneously.

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