http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-programming.html http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-... Parallel, at least

http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-programming.html http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-... Parallel, at least in English, means to have nothing in common with others. On most OSes it is a process affined to a dedicated CPU which is configured to access a dedicated physical I/O device only. Everything else is concurrent.