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This article is about the Atlas Supervisor computer program. In general, a supervisor is a person who assigns tasks to other persons, and monitors that the tasks are being correctly performed.

The Atlas Supervisor was the program which managed the allocation of processing resources of the Atlas Computer (of the University of Manchester) so that the machine was able to act on many tasks and User Programs concurrently. In other words, the Atlas Supervisor may arguably be called the very first computer operating system.

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Supervisory programIn telecommunication, the term supervisory program has the following meanings: 1. 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

Supervisor modeIn computer terms, supervisor mode is a hardware-mediated flag which can be changed by code running in system-level software. System-level tasks or threads will have this flag set while they are running, whereas user-space applications will not. This flag

SupervisorThis article is about the Atlas Supervisor computer program. In general, a supervisor is a person who assigns tasks to other persons, and monitors that the tasks are being correctly performed. The Atlas Supervisor was the program which managed the allocat

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