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The term was popularized with the introduction of [[OS/360]] (announced 1964), which featured Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (MFT) and Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks (MVT). In this case tasks were identified with processes, a job consisted of a number of tasks, and, later, tasks could have sub-tasks (in modern terminology, [[child process]]es).
Today the term "task" is used very ambiguously. For example, the [[Windows Task Manager]] manages (running) ''processes'', while [[Windows Task Scheduler]] schedules ''programs'' to execute in future, what is traditionally known as a [[job scheduler]], and uses the <code>.job</code> extension. By contrast, the term "[[task queue]]" is commonly used in the sense of "units of work".
== See also ==
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