Multics
= M =
mumblage
multitask n.
Often used of humans in the same meaning it
has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at
once (but see thrash). The term `multiplex', from
communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel
at the same time), is used similarly.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.