What is multitasking and multithreading?

Answer Posted / maruthamkumar

multitasking: os allows more than one task to be executed concurrently regardless of the task using same resources or different resources.but only one task may take control over the resources.
multithreading:it is a subset of multitasking.it is an environment were multiple task share the same resources without interfering each other.
Thread:its a set of control structure to communicate and effectively utillise the same resources among n number of task

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