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Network Binary

One significant component of a process is an image. An image is similar to an application. The NOS associates an image with a process and starts the execution. Images are built for particular hardware instruction sets and thus, dictate the class of machines that the image can run on. Some machines may have an instruction set emulator, which allows for some images to run on non-native machines. There is no universal network binary.



Ronald LeRoi Burback
Wed Jul 30 10:49:53 PDT 1997