The UNIX Operating System

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Ray Seyfarth

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Concurrency


  • Real or apparent simultaneous computing

  • Time-sharing: a single CPU switches from 1 process to the next

  • Multiprocessing: multiple CPUs handle processes

  • Orca and perch each have 2 CPUs and do both time-sharing and multiprocessing


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Ray.Seyfarth@usm.edu
Updated 20:05 Jun 5, 2000