CHAPTER 1Manage program flow

This chapter is focused on the way that programs run inside your computer. In the early days of computing this was a very simple process, with a single program executing on a single Central Processing Unit (CPU). Modern applications, however, are not implemented by an individual program following a single sequence of instructions. Today’s applications typically contain large numbers of cooperating processes. There are two reasons why this is the case.

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