%0 Journal Article %T The Impact of Parallel Processing on Operating Systems %A Felician ALECU %J Oeconomics of Knowledge %D 2009 %I Saphira Publishing %X The base entity in computer programming is the process or task. The parallelism can be achieved by executing multiple processes on different processors. Distributed systems are managed by distributed operating systems that represent the extension for multiprocessor architectures of multitasking and multiprogramming operating systems. %K parallel processing %K operating systems %K process %K thread %U https://sites.google.com/site/oeconomicsofknowledge/v1_i1_3q_2009_fa.pdf