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This insistence on terminology is sadly incorrect, and should be: multitasking isn't parallel processing.

Concurrency and parallelism are very general, vague terms that mean approximately the same thing: processing of some unspecified kind happening simultaneously.



For instance, parallelism can be in a single thread: "instruction-level parallelism" (pipelines in a CPU: fetching some instructions while others are being decoded and others still are executing on multiple functional units).




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