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Single User - Single Tasking
Name: Thursd@y (by Khameis) Date: April 26, 2004 at 01:57:00 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
The difference between:
1) Single User - Single Tasking 2) Single User - Multi Tasking 3) Multi User - Multi Tasking
Name: slack_ Date: April 26, 2004 at 02:45:40 Pacific
Reply:
exactly how it sounds. Where it says Single user means only one user can use it, like dos or windows 95. Multiuser is like linux, there can be several users beinga ble to logon.
Same thing with single/multi tasking. Single tasking means only one program can be running at a time, aka dos. Multi-tasking is like winodws or linux, you can have several browsers going along with messenger and however number of other programs running in the background.
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