On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 07:31:58 -0500 
 shane@border.com wrote:

 >   What is the difference between multi-tasking and multi-threading?

Well, multi-tasking is the ability to run more than one process.  A
process has its own address space, among other things.

A thread is a "light-weight process" of sorts.  It has its own stack,
register state, etc., and is the entity which is scheduled for execution.

UNIX processes, as far as the kernel is concerned, have on thread.

In the Mach world, the terms are "task" and "thread".  Mach emulates
a UNIX process by creating a task with one thread of execution.

In Solaris, processes are stripped down somewhat, having only the
address space and other "common to all threads" info.  "Threads" 
are described with an lwp (light-weight process :-), which carry
stack, register, etc., state.

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