whether the mulitasking and multiprocessing are same or
not.

Answer Posted / jayasuriya

Multitasking implies time sharing, its like a single person
doing different jobs, obviously at different time slices.
Multiprocessing involves some amount of parallelism, if the
hardware supports (eg: dual core, hyper threading etc.)

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