Process Management was the theme of Andy’s lecture this week. Specifically, a definition of processes and how they intersect with the CPU, Process Control and Process Scheduling Algorithms.
- Processes – Simply a program execution.
- Process Control – an import part of a multi-tasking O/S (modern O/S’s and CPUs enable multithreading)
- Information about processes is store in the Process Table by the O/S
The lecture glazed over the process management system stopping at:
- Process State –
