Hello Miles!

14 Jan 05 04:25, you wrote to me:

 MM>> And parallel processing is supposed to be the next big Thing !

 BS>> You mean multi process programming?

 MM> Not if that means dealing with several tasks linearly;  parallel
 MM> processing takes a task,  breaks it down into sub-tasks that can
 MM> be processed simultaneously and then distributes them across
 MM> separate processors;  the outputs are then re-assembled to make a
 MM> coherent output..

Aha. Multi process programming is parallel processing of tasks. :-)

Bo


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