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Question: Difference between time sharing and multitasking systems?
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| August 08, 2006 04:52:16 |
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| Y. Ranjan |
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RE: Difference between time sharing and multitasking s...
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| There is no universally accepted difference between these two types of operating system. In some books, they are synonyms each other. And in some other books, they are considered as different types of operating systems. Time-sharing OS is a kind of multitasking OS with a short limited time slices given to each precesses whereas, in multitasking OS, there is no time slice assigned to each process. The OS switches among the processes resided in memory like when a process needs i/o operation, the OS is switched to some other process residing in the memory. |
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