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Overview

The basic structure of a single cell is shown diagrammatically in Figure 4.1. Each cell is a process running on the (virtual) Cosmos operating system. A cell has its own program code, working memory, stack, registers and various other structures. The major features of the cell are explained in the rest of this section.


  
Figure 4.1: The Structure of a Cell in Cosmos.
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Tim Taylor
1999-05-29