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Processes and Threads

A processis the running version of a computer program. It is given its own private space in the system memory which it uses to store its code and data. The context of the process is the entire contents of this memory, and some more data about the system’s state. This way, when the context of a process is loaded into the memory, it can start executing from when it left off.

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