Supervisory program - Wikipedia Supervisory program This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. Please help to create a more balanced presentation. Discuss and resolve this issue before removing this message. ( May 2016 ) This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( May 2016 ) This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2016 ) It has been suggested that this article be merged into Kernel ( operating system ). ( Discuss ) Proposed since May 2016. A supervisory program or supervisor is a computer program, usually part of an operating system, that controls the execution of other routines and regulates work scheduling, input / output operations, error actions, and similar functions and regulates the flow of work in a data processing system. It can also refer to a program that allocates computer component space and schedules computer events by task queuing and system interrupts. Control of the system is returned to the supervisory program frequently enough to ensure that demands on the system are met. Historically, this term was essentially associated with IBM 's line of mainframe operating systems starting with OS / 360. In other operating systems, the supervisor is generally called the kernel. In the 1970s, IBM further abstracted the supervisor state from the hardware, resulting in a hypervisor that enabled full virtualization, i.e. the capacity to run multiple operating systems on the same machine totally independently from each other. Hence the first such system was called Virtual Machine or VM. References This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document `` Federal Standard 1037C '' ( in support of MIL - STD - 188 ). This computing article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supervisory_program&oldid=798348608 '' Categories : Operating system technology Computing stubs Hidden categories : Articles needing POV - check from May 2016 All NPOV disputes Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2016 All Wikipedia articles in need of updating Articles lacking sources from June 2016 All articles lacking sources Articles to be merged from May 2016 All articles to be merged Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Federal Standard 1037C Wikipedia articles incorporating text from MIL - STD - 188 All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Português Edit links This page was last edited on 1 September 2017, at 11 : 13. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: the supervisor program in an operating system (os) is also known as the
Answer: the kernel