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   ocr: ultitasking involues splitting the available memory of your PC into 2 or more individual regions" or partitions. Let's take a simple multitasking program and look at how it works; a shareware multitasker available on most BBS systems by the name of multask.arc or mts.arc. Upon execution of this program, mts splits your computer's memory into regions and pretends that each region is a standalone DOS partition, each sharing your computer's S most precious resource: the CPU. (We'll refer to these partitions as partition A and B). Any multitasker will also provide a ucans for the user to "swap" be ...