supervisory program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There have been no adequate supervisory programmes, and there has been no desire to place limits upon fishing fleets.

Second, a program as a whole could be treated as data by a supervisory program; a loader, an assembler or compiler, or an operating system.

All but the smallest modern computers therefore have a layer of supervisory programs, the operating system, between the hardware and the problem programs, as shown in Figure 1.9.

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.

"The ship had an overriding supervisory program," Flattery said, "a command to get us safely to Tau Ceti - you're sure of that?"

The resultant pack, wherever it went, contained, in addition to the programming ordered by that particular customer, a three-megabyte rider of highly condensed supervisory programming, no charge.

With an OMC tied in as supervisory program - as supreme decision-maker - the computer and the ship it controlled had been a living creature of metal.

After a conference with defense lawyers and prosecutors, Judge Corriero may assign a juvenile offender to a community-based intensive supervisory program, which may last up to a year.

In 1999, the C.F.T.C. fined Refco $7 million for failing to take and record orders properly and for failing to have an effective supervisory program.

MONITOR was the supervisory program, and the special set of routines was called THEM THINGS.

The difference with this system was that its supervisory programs were written in self-extending code in which was embodied an instinct to achieve the low-priority goals and not the high-priority ones.

This is achieved via the implementation of a comprehensive Authorization and Supervisory framework aided by the execution of proactive & effective inspection, prudential, compliance, and anti-money laundering supervisory programs on capital market institutions.

"You know," Timberlake said, speaking in a low, reasonable tone, "if an instinct is something to which the whole system must refer in a moment of stress, that's something like a computer's trapping function mated to a supervisory program."

The report contains five recommendations that the Board, the CFTC, and the SEC believe will enhance and reinforce existing supervisory programs and will help further strengthen the government s oversight of designated clearing entities.

About the Author: Charley Johnson serves as a Presidential Management Fellow, and Priya Jaisinghani serves as a Supervisory Program Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Multi-tasking eliminates that dependency and expands upon multiprogramming by enabling the operating system supervisory program to interrupt programs in the middle of tasks and to transfer processor control so rapidly that each program is now assured a portion of each processing second, making the interruptions imperceptible to most human-interactive applications.