distinguish between multi-tasking,multi-user,multi-
processing and time sharing?

Answer Posted / jatin khurana

multiprogramming-more than one program resides in the memory
& they are executed in interleaving fashion.CPU switches from one program to another if any I\O operation occurs, not fixed time allocated to each program

multitasking-logical extension of multiprogramming in which every job is executed for a given time slot & wait for its turn again so this generally uses the round robin scheduling

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