Processes States

The three states of a process

Now that we have some idea of what a process is (though we will continue to refine this notion), and (roughly) how it is created, let us talk about the different states a process can be in at a given time. The notion that a process can be in one of these states arose in early computer systems1. “Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations” by Jack B. Dennis, Earl C. Van Horn. Communications of the ACM, Volume 9, Number 3, March 1966. This paper defined many of the early terms and ...