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You can say. More common word is task.Sorry to be such a n00b, but can someone please explain WikiPedia's statement that "eCos (embedded configurable operating system) is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications which need only one process with multiple threads"?
Why only one process? And presumably the thread are what I would think of as
processes in "normal" terminology?
I guess that what I am asking here is whether this is just a matter ofSometimes it is, depends on OS' documentation terminology, traditionally it all used to be processes.
semantics (what's a process? what's a thread?) or if there are some
technical restrictions ...
Thank you very much in advance for any clarification.
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