第5章 计算机专业英语 孙建忠.ppt

Computer English Chapte5 Operating System Jobs, programs and processes A program is the classical view of a computation. It consists of a set of program units, including program units obtained from libraries, which constitute an object code to be executed. A process is an execution of a program or of a part of a program. It differs from a program when concurrent programming techniques are used for coding the program. In such a case many processes can execute a program or a part of a program. 程序是计算的传统观点，它由一系列程序单元构成，包括从库中获取的程序单元，并组成可执行的目标代码。进程是一个程序或一个程序部分的一次执行。在应用并行编码技术时，许多进程可以执行同一程序或其一部分，这时进程