Re: Multiprocessing? (Was: [MacPerl] acgi vs cgi (fwd)) (fwd)

[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

Ok, the _ONLY_ reason I'm writing back on this is because
of the laugh I got when I went to the Webster Dictionary
WWW site and asked about multitasking and multiprocessing.
Here are the results:

multitasking 

<computer, parallel> (Or "multi-tasking",
"multi-processing", "multiprogramming", "concurrency") A
technique used in an {operating system} for sharing a
single processor between several independent jobs. The
first multitasking operating systems were designed in the
early 1960s.

multiprocessing n : simultaneous processing by two or more
processing units [syn: parallel processing]

So I guess the only difference in the definition of
multiprocessing is.......a hyphen.  :-)

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