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How many truly concurrent operations occur on a home computer?
About 15 years ago I discovered that despite the number of cores a CPU had, the system could only carry out 1 read or write operation at a time. Before that I held an incorrect notion of what multitasking was.
My basic question is, has anything changed?
I hear terms like parallel processing being waved around as though daring me to infer that processors these days can write to more than 1 memory address at the same time.
To clarify once more. I'm talking about at the same exact time. Not during a clock tick. Actual simultaneity**.**
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About 15 years ago I discovered that despite the number of cores a CPU had, the system could only carry out 1 read or write operation at a time. Before that I held an incorrect notion of what multitasking was.
My basic question is, has anything changed?
I hear terms like parallel processing being waved around as though daring me to infer that processors these days can write to more than 1 memory address at the same time.
To clarify once more. I'm talking about at the same exact time. Not during a clock tick. Actual simultaneity**.**
#technology
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