It is a gesture intended to "retire" the old process.

The function can be used to create new processes without fully copying the address space of the old process.

Using a very old process that takes up a hell of a lot of electrical power.

The old process of making a movie has not been replaced by new digital technology, just changed incrementally.

No financial accounting of the old process or the new one was undertaken as part of the change.

Artificially it is also an old process, having been known and studied for 100 years or more, but never brought to significant industrial application.

We must begin the old process of instilling fear in the settlers all over again.

The first four were recorded by the old acoustic process.

The first two recordings were made by the old acoustic process.

Under the old process, school officials requesting to suspend a student typically got an answer within 48 hours, they say.