On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 8:29:23 PM UTC-6, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> If the term "OS file associations" is ever so slightly
> inaccurate (it's not the actual OS kernel that does the
> associating, but the desktop environment), well, we can
> probably say the same thing about Mac OS X and maybe even
> Windows itself.
I don't believe many folks think about the OS in the
strictly narrow view that it is "only a kernel existing
below higher abstractions", as much as they accept the OS as
encompassing the OS kernel and all the ooey and gooey
interfacing layers on top. I suppose you might call that a
"system", but such a word is far too ambiguous. IOWs: it may
not be technically correct, but it is the accepted norm.
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