[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> 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?

Multiprocessor and multiprocessing systems are two different
things, not ?

Multiprocessing doesn't need a multiprocessor system...


> 
> Does a program run on a programmer?
> 
> -- glen
>