Tasks, threads and processes, confused?

With the growth of the use of commercial off-the-shelf real-time operating systems, the terms task, thread and process are widely used in magazines, conference papers and marketing literature. Everyone using these terms has a very clear idea of their meaning. However, this paper intends to demonstrate that these seemingly innocuous terms are ambiguous and their exact meaning is dependent on the author's programming background.

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