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'''Task''' is a subject of scheduling, usually owning other system resources. Operating systems ([[OS]]) supporting multiple tasks are called '''multitasking'''. Modern OS may have several types of tasks: [[process]], [[thread]], fiber. For a language supporting concurrency there are multiple options to map language defined tasks:
* mapping to the OS scheduling items of OS, like a process or more often a thread;
* using own scheduler within single OS task;
* own scheduler without OS support, bare board, common for real-time embedded systems.