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supervisory software

n. specialized programs that reside permanently in the computer's main memory and control the processing of user's programs

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Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoself-the sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as required-to ensure that these conditions remained true.

Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoselfthe sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as requiredto ensure that these conditions remained true.