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Process Implementation

  • Each process has a process descriptor containing information about the process
  • When kernel stops execution of a process data is saved to the process descriptor
    • Program Counter, Stack Pointer
    • Regular Registers, Floating Point Registers
    • Processor control registers (processor status word) representing CPU state
    • Memory management registers for RAM
  • During wait states the CPU is waiting for kernel to issue the next instruction

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