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A process is a running instantiation of a program
It includes the program's object code
But also a bunch of other information
You probably have only one program for cat.
/bin/cat perhaps
But there might be many cat processes at any time
cat /etc/passwd & cat /dev/kmem | cat - /var/log/maillog
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