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3) Processes

The single hardware machine would be divided by the system into many virtual CPU's (processes). In principle, all processes would be computing simultaneously, at some fraction of the real machine speed. Each user would have one or more processes at his disposal. With the exception of those files in the process map (see 4), a program could affect objects external to its process only through virtual instructions.

Paul McJones
1998-06-22