David Kastrup writes:
> So you admit that there has been no _fixed_ definition.  Maybe you are
> too old to remember those things, but in those times, "operating system"
> and "kernel" was used pretty much synonymously in computer science
> circles.

This is true, but in computer marketing circles the definition extended far
beyond the kernel.  See, for example, what AT&T included in System III or
for that matter what all came on the BSD tapes.

-- 
John Hasler 
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Elmwood, WI USA
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