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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.

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EXEC 8 executable executable content execute execution	AE AIX Bill Gates Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Resear DEBUG	Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language exercise, left as an exhaustive testing existential quantifier EXODUS