# Operating Systems **Domain:** Computer Science / Systems Software **Doc Type:** Field **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Master Control Program]], [[Infrastructure as Governance]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Operating systems coordinate computation, memory, devices, processes and access to shared machine resources. ## Corpus Context They are governance substrates inside computers: they allocate capacity, define permissions and mediate programs' relation to hardware. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]