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What is multi-threading? Why Multithreading?

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.NET threading - What is multi-threading? Why Multithreading? - March 13, 2009 at 15:20 PM by Amit Satpute

What is multi-threading? Why Multithreading? 

Multithreading is the ability of an operating system to concurrently run programs that have been divided into threads.

Multithreading offers better utilization of processors and other system resources.

Example:

A program can spell check and save the data to disk while sending data to be printed. 

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