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Describe 'user'

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	The term is sometimes used to refer to a [[process]] (or similar locus of computation) which is doing things on behalf of, or at the direction of, the human.		The term is sometimes used to refer to a [[process]] (or similar locus of computation) which is doing things on behalf of, or at the direction of, the human.

			On machines which have [[hardware]] support for time-sharing, the [[Central Processing Unit\|CPU]] usually has two modes, 'User' and '[[Kernel]]'; in the former certain [[instruction]]s which can disturb the overall operation for other users are prohibited, and only allowed to the [[operating system]], which runs in the latter mode.

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A '''user''' is generally the human on whose behalf a particular computation is being done. On a [[time-sharing]] system, it would be the person logged in to the system over a [[terminal]] (real or virtual). On a [[personal computer]], it would be the person using that PC.

The term is sometimes used to refer to a [[process]] (or similar locus of computation) which is doing things on behalf of, or at the direction of, the human.

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