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Foil 18 Some Terminology - 6

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


Multitasking - Executing many processes on a single processor. Usually done by time-slicing the execution of individual processes and performing a context switch each time a process is swapped in or out - supported by special-purpose hardware in some computers.
Network - A physical communication medium. A network may consist of one or more buses, a switch, or the links joining processors in a multicomputer.
NFS - Network Filing System is a protocol developed to use IP and allow a set of computers to access each other's file systems as if they were on the local host



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