I hope that was the last message thread, this has gotten so out of hand I am ready to have my mail server dump them before they get to me. Just remember we all choose this wonderful life of computer engineering and have to deal and be able to accept that there are no BLACK/WHITE answers. All ya married men think of this like your wife, her attitude, feelings, thoughts, wants, etc..... subject to change and ya best be ready for it. Enjoy Thought for the day: "Engineering Definition": Subject to the interpretation of the person giving the defenation.
Agreed. I'll shut up now. sorry for the bandwidth use. Ulrich Czekalla wrote: > > Your both somewhat right. The general definition of an OS is a system that > controls and coordinates the use of hardware among the various application > programs for the various users. So it acts as a resource allocator (CPU, > memory, file storage, IO,..) and a control program to solve various > resource conflicts. There is no need for a traditional shell like > bash or DOS-shell. Although it wouldn't be very interactive or interesting. > Finally, a quote from the dinosaur book, that is Operating System > Concepts, Silberschatz, > > "There is also no universally accepted definition of what is part of the OS > and what is not. A simple viewpoint is that everything a vendor ships when > you order "the operating system" should be considered...... A more common > definition is that the operating system is the one program running at all > times on the computer ( usually called the kernel )." > > This is probably one of the most used texts on the subject. > > -Ulrich -- Lane J. Bryson Network Product Analyst RULDS2 Interphase Corporation, Systems Analysis Group -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
