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OCR: Chapter -Memory Organization 9 The Mops Dictionary Near the beginning of this manual we said Mops program builds dictionary of words Each word and its definition occupies portion the computer's memory. Mopst tidafuunsists of several parts 'including information like whether word is a value or colon dtefin the numbers or other data associated with the word, and machine instructions which carry out the operations specified for that word In Mops the areas reserved for those parts fiordafe calledfields. Most Mops words have four fields that you should be aware of link field name field hand: e field code elc and they look like this in memory: LOW MEMORY (previ WO Link Heade Name Hand er Code (next pio HIGH MEMORY Figure 5-2-Fields ir Dictionary Entry The link, name and handler fields are usuall ...