Did the term multitasking come from the computer realm? As a matter of fact, the word multitasking did originate in the computer realm, but it is older than you estimate According to the OED, the first citation of the word is from 1966, in a magazine called Datamation: Multi-tasking is defined as the use of a single CPU for the simultaneous processing of two or more jobs The more general sense of multitasking, then, arose from this computing term
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The Wikipedia page for it redirects to polymath, which may be less suitable in your case because it connotes more about natural aptitude for different subjects than their ability to multitask
parts of speech - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What precisely is 'wildcard' in 'wildcard character', the latter being frequently used in texts on EDP, such as descriptions of command line syntax of programs In particular, is 'wildcard' essenti
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