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A routine that initiates and controls the transfer of pages between main and auxiliary storage.
Industry:Computer; Software
A routine that receives control when a specified event, such as an error, occurs.
Industry:Computer; Software
A routine that responds to interrupt requests by storing the contents of critical registers, performing the processing required by the interrupt request, restoring the register contents, and restarting the interrupted process.
Industry:Computer; Software
A routine that returns control to the program or subprogram that called it. Note: The terms "routine," "subprogram," and "subroutine" are defined and used differently in different programming languages; the preceding definition is advanced as a proposed standard.
Industry:Computer; Software
A routine, often part of an assembler or compiler, that replaces each macroinstruction in a source program with the predefined sequence of instructions that the macroinstruction represents. Sy n : macro generating program.
Industry:Computer; Software
A scheme that partitions a body of knowledge and defines the relationships among the pieces. It is used for classifying and understanding the body of knowledge.
Industry:Computer; Software
A selective dump of those storage locations whose contents have changed since some specified time or event.
Industry:Computer; Software
A selective dump of those storage locations whose contents have changed since some specified time or event.
Industry:Computer; Software
A separately compilable software component consisting of related data types, data objects, and subprograms.
Industry:Computer; Software
