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State whether the following is True or False :
One of the assumptions made while sequencing n jobs on 2 machines is: two jobs must be loaded at a time on any machine.
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One of the assumptions made while sequencing n jobs on 2 machines is: two jobs must be loaded at a time on any machine False.
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