Central processor serves two or more users with different processing
requirements (tasks) Central processor is available to a variety of users
connected to the central compare via communication links. Processors
time is divided appropriately among users’ tasks into time slices. Control
switched from one job to another under the influence of the OS, in turn,
the processors idle time is removed.
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