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franklinjohn1985
September 16th, 2008, 03:48 PM
hey folks! this is franklin,

I have some doubt on operating system concepts. this may sounds very basic, so i hope u could help me immediately... First one is

>What is the difference between job,process and task?
>what is the difference between multi-programming and multi-tasking?

help me out on this..... Thanks...

Zugzwang
September 16th, 2008, 04:35 PM
Since this is likely to be homework, I can only advice you to look it up.

The mostly used reference on that is Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" book. I'm sure you'll find it in your university library.

cmay
September 16th, 2008, 05:24 PM
http://www.minix3.org/
this is the homepage of the operative system minix that tanenbaum uses in the book operative systems designs and implementation.there is links to his books on that page also. there is lots of useful information on wikipedia as well.

franklinjohn1985
September 25th, 2008, 03:07 PM
hi zugzwang, this is franklin. thank you for your idea. that really helped me.... thnx