[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
(snip, I wrote)
 
>> Personally, I don't like the name 'process'.  It makes the
>> term multiprocessing ambiguous.  (It should refer to multiple
>> physical (or virtual) processors.  Besides, everyone now knows
>> what multitasking means even if they don't know which end of
>> a computer us up.)
 
> What word would you use? Task, I guess. But not 'thread', which has a 
> distinct meaning.

Yes task and multitasking.
 
> I always use the term 'process'. A process runs on 
> a processor...that seems sensible, that's all.

And multiprocessing means more than one processor or
more than one process on a single processor?

Does a program run on a programmer?

-- glen