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2. Computer multitasking - Wikipedia

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   Multitasking of Microsoft Windows 1.01 released in 1985, here shown running the MS-DOS Executive and Calculator programs. In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time. New tasks can interrupt already started ones before they finish, instead of waiting for them ...

3. DESQview - Wikipedia

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   It was widely thought to be the first program to bring multitasking and windowing capabilities to DOS; in fact, there was a predecessor, IBM TopView, which shipped March 1985. [3] Under DESQview, well-behaved DOS programs can be run concurrently in resizable, overlapping windows (something the first version of Windows cannot do).

4. Multithreading (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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   From the software standpoint, hardware support for multithreading is more visible to software, requiring more changes to both application programs and operating systems than multiprocessing. Hardware techniques used to support multithreading often parallel the software techniques used for computer multitasking. Thread scheduling is also a major ...

5. MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking) - Wikipedia

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   MS-DOS 4.0 [a] was a multitasking release of MS-DOS developed by Microsoft based on MS-DOS 2.0. Lack of interest from OEMs, particularly IBM (who previously gave Microsoft multitasking code on IBM PC DOS included with TopView), led to it being released only in a scaled-back form.

6. Streamers beware: Intel's 12th Gen CPUs and Windows 10 ... - AOL

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   Windows 10 still thinks this is the case for the Intel 12th Gen CPUs, and will sometimes send programmes that are in need of a powerful CPU core to an E-core, leading to stunted performance due to ...

7. Multi-user software - Wikipedia

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   Multi-user software is computer software that allows access by multiple users of a computer. [1] Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered "multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete.