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Allows a single user to perform more than one task at a time
To run more than one application program at a time/Example: have
a browser and word processing SW open at the same time
The OS must keep track of where the user is in these tasks
... and enable them to go from one to the other without losing data
The OS allocates storage and other resources accordingly
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