What is multitasking and multithreading?

Answer Posted / sadiq afroze

Multitasking is the feature supported by the operating
system to execute more than one task simultaneously.

Multithreading is the system environment where the tasks are
sharing the same programs load module under the multitasking
environment. It is a subset of multitasking since it
concerns tasks which use the same program.

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