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Introduce term "process" before using it (#123)
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The difference between the processor's and memory's perspectives becomes apparent when you consider that
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the processor may be dividing its time between multiple computational
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processes.
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the processor may be dividing its time between multiple programs.
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As I will explain briefly in Section~\ref{vm-private-storage-section}
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and in detail in Chapter~\ref{processes-chapter}, the operating system
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represents running programs as \emph{processes}.
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Sometimes the processes will each need a private object,
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yet the natural name to use will be the same in more than one process.
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Figure~\ref{scan-6-2} shows how this necessitates using different

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