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The Process Control Block

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State

The operating system keeps every detail of a process's execution state in its process control block whenever the process is not running — the CPU's registers emptied into the record at suspension.

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A saved game holds everything needed to resume as if never stopped.

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A running process's state lives split between record and CPU.

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