Bob asks:

> decode the PID in the process creation record to match it with the pin number in
> the process termination record. From what I can see, it appears that the newly

A PID, from the MPE process viewpoint, is a 64-bit quantity that looks like:

most significant
   16 bit unused (was intended to be the machine number in a network)
   16 bit PIN (Process Identification Number)
   32 bit reuse count (how many times has the PIN been reused since bootup)
least significant

That 32-bit reuse count is what makes the PID useful/important.  The
64-bit PID should be unique within a given bootup of MPE/iX.

Note that this is different from the POSIX PID, and the memory page
protection PID :)

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