The *(term) within traditional _(operating system)s for a very coarse-_(grain)ed _(active) object. In the sense of a _(high-level) system, they merely denote _(active) _(object)s.

In traditional systems, processes are the basic execution unit, and are very coarse-grained. In fact, traditional systems use insecure languages (like the _(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 <em>in this traditional sense</em> should be avoided when possible.