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Preface -- Lecture Topics
- It is still important to keep in mind that not all computers are
personal computers or workstations. A student of computer science
needs to think more generally about computing machinery.
- The concept of a process is important in the theory of
operating systems. A process is, in essence, a running program. The
process is the unit of work in an operating system.