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<p><big> Two-state process management model </big></p>
<p>The <a href="page.php?w=operating_system">operating system</a>'s principal responsibility is to control the execution of <a href="page.php?w=process_%28computing%29">processes</a>. This includes determining the interleaving pattern for execution and allocation of resources to processes. One part of designing an OS is to describe the behavior that we would like each process to exhibit. The simplest model is based on the fact that a process is either being executed by a processor</p><p>
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