Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
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ISBN: 9781259618635
Author: Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The feature that allows user to run several applications at once and switch between them is “Task Management”.
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Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
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