What is the difference b/w multiprocessing and multitasking, Operating System

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What is the difference between multiprocessing and multitasking?

Multi programming means implementing more than one program but here whenever the processor is idle during execution of one process it go for execution of another program. Where as in Multitasking this is a grouping of both multi programming and time-sharing means in this it will execute more than one process simultaneously.

 


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