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Sorry if this sounds incredibly noobish, but i was just pondering seriously upon it. If the processer can handle only one instruction at a time, how does the computer seem to be doing like a hundred things at a time? It is performing the OS functions, it is running the application, it is displaying the GUI, and all the stuff between these. I suppose the obvious answer will be that it juggles between these processes extremely fast, but then, how fast can you go?
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Jump to PostIt's all handled by the operating system. The os contains a task scheduler whose job is to give cpu time to the various processes that are running. Here is an article that …
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