executive

<operating system>

The command interpreter or shell for an operating system. The term is used especially around mainframes and probably derived from UNIVAC's archaic EXEC 2 and current (in 2000) EXEC 8 operating systems.

Last updated: 2000-08-06

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execution ♦ executive ♦ Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language

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