MIT's Kaashoek receives ACM award for Exokernel Operating Systems, et al.

"Operating systems typically interpret instructions written in high-level programming languages and oversee their execution on a device’s hardware."<p>What is that supposed to mean?

a link to the distribution:<p><a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo/distrib.html" rel="nofollow">http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo/distrib.html</a>