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simtel20 | 1 month ago

I've only ever heard of that as the type of a DOS/Windows .exe binary.

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g-b-r|1 month ago

that's an executable...

simtel20|1 month ago

There 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?