supervisory program
supervisor **
executive program

We won't interfere with supervisory programs or command constants.

"Its supervisory program will always be one of us," Bickel said, fighting to keep irritation from his voice.

It is the function of supervisory programs to control traffic in a computer.

He began work on a translator, a program that would interpret the function of the supervisory programs he was infiltrating.

When a task tries to perform a privileged operation a trap occurs and a supervisory program running at a higher level is allowed to decide how to respond.

This is given various names, such as the nucleus or executive; we will use the term supervisor for this basic set of main-store-resident supervisory programs.

The instinct implanted deep inside the structure of its supervisory programs was now active.

One bank was reserved for the time-sharing supervisory program, the other for user programs.

Scripting, according to the state, insures objectivity on the part of the assessor and is supposedly the wave of the future for supervisory programs.

Control of the system is returned to the supervisory program frequently enough to ensure that demands on the system are met.