operating-system-context.html

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Operating system context

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The context represents the state required by a process.

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The context represents the state of a process. It is an aggregate of all information required during the execution of a process, consisting of:

Data stored in the CPU registers
Data stored in the cache
Data stored in the main memory (RAM)