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What has triggered the need for multitasking in PCs?
By joby peter in Operating Systems on Jul 13 2006
  • Pat Farrell
    Jul, 2007 15

    No, virtual memory and client/server computing do not drive multi-tasking. Virtual memory helps make it work better, but with sufficent real memory, you do not need virtual memory. Multi-tasking is needed because people want to do several things at once, or want to switch quickly between them. Windows at least since 2.11 has supported some level of multi-tasking. It was cooperative, but it was multi-tasking. NT was the first Windows version that had "real" multi-tasking. A classic and easy to understand example of why humans want multi-tasking is that they want to play a music file, have their email program downloading email, all while they surf the web using FireFox.

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  • joby peter
    Jul, 2006 13

    1. Increased speed and memory capacity of microprocessors together with the support fir virtual memory 
    2. Growth of client server computing
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