Process10 Unit 1 Process Analysis

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A process is a running program, one of the more important things about creating the illusion of virtualization is the speed at which the operating systems will change from one service to another or from one operation to another. Time-sharing is essentially the sequential ordering of instructions, in such a way that it appears each process vying for CPU time is running. Tracing Process State: CPU and I/O (Arpaci-Dusseau & Arpaci-Dusseau, 2012. Chapter 4, p. 7) The table above shows what this ordering of instructions may look like in action. Over 8 instruction steps, the operations required by Process0 and Process1 are fully completed by sharing the single CPU resource efficiently. Normally, modern desktop computers are capable of

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