multitasking operating system

C11151
concept

A multitasking operating system is software that manages computer hardware and resources to run multiple processes or applications seemingly simultaneously by rapidly switching the CPU among them and coordinating their execution.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
multitasking operating system canonical 18
multitasking operating system family 1
virtual memory operating system 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: multitasking operating system
Generated description
A multitasking operating system is software that manages computer hardware and resources to run multiple processes or applications seemingly simultaneously by rapidly switching the CPU among them and coordinating their execution.

Instances (20)

Instance Via concept surface
OS/2
Concurrent DOS
Concurrent CP/M
VMS operating system
VMS
Unix-like systems multitasking operating system family
Unix
TENEX operating system
surface form: TENEX
virtual memory operating system
SINTRAN
MP/M operating system
surface form: MP/M
MP/M
REAL/32
OS-9
FreeMiNT
MultiTOS
MiNT
Virtual Memory System
Real-Time System Executive for the PDP-11
IAS
PRIMOS