Ports — A Method for Dynamic Interprogram Communication and Job Control

Ports — A Method for Dynamic Interprogram Communication and Job Control

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Describes Ports, a unified method for communication between a computer program and terminals, files, peripheral devices, other programs, and supervisory software. In ISPL (Incremental System Programming Language, described in R-563), each job has a Port named MONITOR that handles resource allocation: creating and deleting files, assigning file space, core space, processor time.