What is the difference between multitasking and
multiprogramming?

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What is the difference between multitasking and multiprogramming?..

Answer / rahul gupta

MULTI TASKING IS THE ABILITY TO EXECUTE MORE THAN ONE TASK AT SAME TIME..............IN MULTI TASKING, ONLY ONE C.P.U IS INVOLVED............
IT IS OF TWO TYPE............PREEMPTIVE & CO-OPERATIVE..

IN MULTI PROGRAMING, SEVERAL PRGM RUNS AT THE SAME TIME IN UNIPROCESSOR ,....IN THIS....C.P.U EXECUTE ONE PRT OF ONE PRGRM THAN ONE PRT OF ANOTHER PRGRM...........THTS WHY ITS LOOK LIKE THT ALL PRGRM EXECUTE AT A SAME TME.............

THE CMN THNG B/W M.P & M.T THT BOTH HAVE SINGLE PROCESSOR..............

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What is the difference between multitasking and multiprogramming?..

Answer / raychael wanja

multitaskig is when there is more than one user
task in cpu while multiprogramming is where there is
more than one proccesor in cpu

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