[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Jan-Erik S?derholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> (snip, I wrote)
> 
>>> 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...
> 
> The IBM terms, at least for IBM mainframe systems, are
> multitasking (more than one task running), and multiprocessing
> (more than one processor running those tasks).

IBM mainsframes uses a lot of names that aren't *that*
common in mainstream computing.

> What do you call multiprocessing?

Any system capable of miltitasking... :-) :-)

> What do you call running on more than one processor?

That I'm running on a multiprocessor system, maybe ?

> (There are symmetric and
> attached processor systems, depending on I/O being
> done by both, or only one, processor.)
> 
> -- glen

Never mind. I don't see the point in this and it's
very seldom an real problem...