That part of the arc located behind such intersections lack recent volcanic. activity and the active volcanoes are generally located along the ocean side of the arc. Inner arcs consists of a double line of islands up to 1500â2000 km in length and the. volcanoes occur on the inner side of the arc.
Part of the Operating systems glossary: A process is an instance of a program running in a computer. It is close in meaning to task, a term used in some operating systems.
September 2002. A computer process is a program in execution. Its state includes the executable code and. data in the main memory (the memory image of the process), the value of the program. counter (giving the address of the next machine instruction to execute), and the values of. all the general-purpose registers.