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Foil 5 Thread Execution and Concurrency

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 4: Multithreading, useful Java classes, I/O, Networking, and the future Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Threads enable you to have multiple flows of control, running concurrently.
2 Concurrency does not necessarily mean that threads actually run at the same time, but that the Java interpreter switches between threads.
3 Threads may also be assigned priority, in which case the higher priority thread may pre-empt the lower one.
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