Asupervisory program orsupervisor is acomputer program that is usually referred as anoperating system. It controls the execution of otherroutines such as regulatingwork schedules,input/output operations, anderror actions.
Historically, this term was essentially associated withIBM's line ofmainframe operating systems starting withOS/360. In other operating systems, the supervisor is generally called thekernel.
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