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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Tasks in Gnat3.05 for Dos?
Date: 1996/07/23
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Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <31F3E4E7.13E4@bunsen.ds.boeing.com>,
John Harbaugh  <johnh@bunsen.ds.boeing.com> wrote:
>In their excellent book "Concurrency In Ada" Burns and Welling make a useful 
>distinction between parallelism and concurrency:
>
>"Two processes are said to be executing in parallel if at any instant they 
>are both executing...  By comparison, two processes are said to be concurrent 
>if they have the potential for executing in parallel."

Can you write a test program that can tell the difference?

- Bob