>Teraspace is a large temporary space that is local to a job. A teraspace
>provides a
>contiguous address space but may consist of many individually allocated
areas,
>with unallocated areas in between. Teraspace exists no longer than the
time
>between job start and job end.


I think the real reason it was implemented was to be able to provide a near
unlimited number of Unix "Job Process" groups (which have a "process
address space")  easily.

It had something to do with supporting lots of Unix "Process Groups"  Can't
remember the details that Frank told me.

John



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