The Illusion of Multitasking in Computing

Your computer is technically lying to you every time you use it. It feels like you

are texting and streaming music simultaneously, but the processor is actually just

switching between them at lightning speed. This is the genius of the modern Operating

System. We went from room-sized machines in the 50s where you had to book a time slot

for one single math problem, to modern kernels that use time-sharing. The OS creates a

strict schedule, slicing time into milliseconds to manage the chaos. It is not magic,

it is just a really stressed-out algorithm juggling tasks so fast you never see it drop the ball.