The *(term) within traditional (operating system)s for a very coarse-_(grain)ed _(active) object.

However, in traditional systems, processes are the basic execution unit, and are very coarse-grained. In fact, traditional systems use insecure languages (like _(C language)), and thus all programs obtained are intrinsicly unsafe, and thus need be wrapped into some paranoid protection frame for the system to be secure at all; this frame is the process.

_(Computing liberalism) indicates that coarse granularity is bad, so that processes should be avoided when possible.
