1. What is multi-threading and how does it relate to multi-tasking? 2. Describe the relation between a process and a thread. 3. Does parallelism of application depend on parallel hardware...

1. What is multi-threading and how does it relate to multi-tasking?

2. Describe the relation between a process and a thread.

3. Does parallelism of application depend on parallel hardware architectures?

4. Describe the principal characteristics of a thread from a programming point of view and the uses

of threads for parallelizing application execution.