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An operating system abstraction that is visible at the application program interface, has a unique name, and capable of being shared. In this document, the following are resources: files, programs, directories, databases, mini-disks, and special files. In this document, the following are not resources: records, blocks, pages, segments, bits, bytes, words, fields, and processors.
Source(s):
NISTIR 5153

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