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system command

n. a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program

Usage examples of "system command".

The system command center has to be virtually hysterical by now if this is true.

Air Force System Command, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) management.

Then I remembered the penetration of Military System Command's core computers and realized that somewhere in there the information could be pieced together.

The latest carve up of responsibilities had given it control of virtually all of the US military's ground-watch and near-space surveillance systems, plus general management of the information stream, but the actual monitoring of space beyond three hundred miles' altitude remained the responsibility of other commands, like the Navy-run Space Surveillance System Command.

The latest carve up of responsibilities had given it control of virtually all of the US militarys ground-watch and near-space surveillance systems, plus general management of the information stream, but the actual monitoring of space beyond three hundred miles altitude remained the responsibility of other commands, like the Navy-run Space Surveillance System Command.