What is Difference between thread and process?

Answer Posted / paul pacurar

A thread is an PROGRAM executing unit. A process it's also a
task running at the OPERATING SYSTEM level. The thread runs
on a PROCESS. Hence, a process can contain a thread or more,
while about a thread we cannot say that contains processes.

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