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They can generally be run on bare metal, to my knowledge. I personally don't remember exactly what was meant with "executive".
by g-b-r 9mo ago
They can generally be run on bare metal, to my knowledge.
I personally don't remember exactly what was meant with "executive".
- simtel20 9mo agoI've only ever heard of that as the type of a DOS/Windows .exe binary.
- g-b-r 9mo agothat's an executable...
- simtel20 9mo agoThere were publications in the 80s that used that term iirc, and I do recall the term for how slightly incongruous it was, and how it didn't come with an explanation. In looking into ut some more, it looks like the executive was a term from mainframes for the layer of the kernel that enforced isolation, but I must have read the term being loosely used in pc magazines. Or maybe mockingly?