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Supervising mode is what system kernel runs in.

It has unrestricted access to hardware, processor, memory and everything else.

User mode is managed by supervisor mode, so programs can't crash other programs deliberately by writing over their memory.

User mode programs communicate with hardware and kernel itself by system calls.

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