
Episode 95: How Computers Work Part V - Assembly Language and the Operating System
The Science of Everything Podcast
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How to Run Multiple Programmes on a System at the Same Time
The purpose of having these two separate modes is to insure that a single process cannot monopolize the system. If you're using a windows machine and press control ort to leat, you'll go to task manager. And this is the list that i'm talking about of the actual processes that are currently running on the machine. Programmes basically usee programmes, like applications that you open,. Like a web rowser, like a game, like marsoff word, something like that. Those are the things that initially appeared, but those are not actually all the processes that your machine is running.
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