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Software emulation of a physical computer that runs an <a href="operating%20system" class="internal-link">operating system</a><html><head></head><body>operating systemtodo

Software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Similar in responsibility to an operating system, an "Operating Function" or OF is a pure function that, given a state and an input, produces a new state and an output.

In contrast to traditional OSes, an OF is deterministic and ensures that the system's behavior is entirely predictable based on its inputs and current state

(NewState, Output) = OperatingFunction(CurrentState, Input)</body></html> and applications just like a physical machine, but is isolated from the actual <a href="hardware%20resources" class="internal-link">hardware</a><html><head></head><body>Hardware Resourcestodo

Hardware</body></html>.

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