| 7,7 → 7,7 |
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| <para>One of the key aims of the operating system is to create and support |
| the impression that several activities are executing contemporarily. This is |
| true for both uniprocessor as well as multiprocessor systems. In the case of |
| multiprocessor systems, the activities are trully happening in parallel. The |
| multiprocessor systems, the activities are truly happening in parallel. The |
| scheduler helps to materialize this impression by planning threads on as |
| many processors as possible and, when this strategy reaches its limits, by |
| quickly switching among threads executing on a single processor.</para> |