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The basic actions of creating a new process, and destroying a process
were available. Creating a new process required a description of its
root subprocess, which included its CM field length, C-list, map,
class code and the relative location of its entry point within its
central memory field length.
One other action directly affected a remote process, sending an
interrupt to a particular subprocess within that process. Other
actions on processes directly affected the process in which the
program which called the action was running. These actions included
the creation of a new subprocess, modification of map entries and
destruction of named subprocesses. The creation of a new subprocess
required the naming of its father, its class code, its local C-list,
the specification of the initial contents of its map, its central
memory field length and the location of its entry point within its
central memory field length.
Paul McJones
1998-06-22