[boris]

> "Processes are the software analog of processors." Yes of course.

Maybe this analogy worked in 1986 when hardware was a lot less reliable, but I don't think it goes very far these days: processes die all the time (normal termination, crash, get killed). When was the last time a processor or core died on you? In fact, according to this analogy most of us are running MS-DOS equivalent of systems since if your processor or core dies, your machine dies. And I don't see this changing any time soon.

[antics]

I think the point they're making is that a process is a software abstraction that provides programmers the illusion of having a processor all to themselves. So in that sense the process is a software "analog" to the processor.

[anonfordays]

>When was the last time a processor or core died on you?

Almost every day. You may never experience if you only manage tens or hundreds of cores, but when you manage hundreds of thousands of cores, it happens.