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Your brain allows you to multitask. For example, you can prepare dinner while talking on the telephone. However, this multitasking has limits, and you can do only two or three things simultaneously. But suppose you could put down the work, start another piece of work, then put that down, and then switch to the original work. How many tasks could you handle at the same time? Probably a few hundred, because what you are doing is serializing the multitasking.
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(2008). Learning About Multithreading. In: Beginning VB 2008. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0542-5_13
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