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Many PC operating systems provide functionality that enables them to support the simultaneous execution of multiple applications on single-processor systems. What term is used to describe this capability?
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Many PC operating systems provide functionality that enables them to support the simultaneous execution of multiple applications on single-processor systems. What term is used to describe this capability?

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The answer is multitasking. This is when the OS always programs to share resources to run at the same time.

If the applications were running on separate CPUs, then it would be multiprocessing.
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