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You're confusing concurrency [1] and parallelism [2] -- this is addressed on the bullet point before the one you quoted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing




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