Multitasking is nothing but processing many processes at a time. example is
run a process in background then u have the shell prompt where u can do
many other things.
Context switch occurs whenever the time slice for a process (or due to an
interrupt) is completed and the scheduler schedules the next process in teh
ready queue. COntext switching is nothing but saving the earlier process'
regisers, address space and loading the next process into the memory
I think the CPU has to idle time for this amount.
I think the same for intel but...
If I am wrong plesae correct me
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [LI] [OT] Multitasking
Dear experts,
Sorry to ask the following questions in this list. But I
didn't have any options.
1. What is the difference between Multitasking and Context switching?
2. What is the role of CPU w.r.t Multitasking and Context switching?
3. I read somewhere that Intel processors are not good in context
switching compared to other CPUs(Sparc, MIPS, etc). Is it true?
TIA
Regards,
Joseph
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