On 6/19/2025 7:55 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:

You may have a strange idea of what an operating system is.

Ha, ha. You're probably right. I guess I'd say that a real operating system, as opposed to a pseudo operating system or runtime executive, must at least have an interrupt driven, preemptive scheduler.

Sounds like you've been assuming that only "real" computers have that, and that definition of an "operating system" is a bit tight, take a look at https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/operating_system, they know a thing or two about the subject. (The scheduler is only part of an OS, and arguably not the most important one.)

(Bits about FF omitted as not relevant.)

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In terms of database systems, Oracle does have the largest share of corporate use, but only ~33% (followed by mysql, sql server, and postgresql). Lots of companies effectively -do- "run on oracle".

I believe that the SQLs are just services. But I won't argue the point.

They are, but you suggested that a lot of the Internet does not use Oracle ("runs on oracle", "runs" could be at multiple levels).


Okay, consider *ux to be operating systems. I just wish it had more uniformity, a decent hierarchical menu, and something like Windows virtual links (which I guess MS now calls shortcuts).

You're conflating an "operating system" with the UI (and possibly with the distribution). MS-Windows is an OS and comes with both a GUI and a CLI. Pretty much all versions of *nix are considered to be an "operating system"s - the BSD variants are an OS which distributes with a CLI and on which you can install several different GUIs, same for linux. Consider that the vast majority of the servers "running the Internet" do not have a GUI installed at all, and may not even have graphics hardware.

(And you can install most of the *nix variants without any direct UI at all for those pesky embedded systems.)

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