How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux? (fwd) -Reply
Jeffrey Waters
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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.
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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
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Scott McDermott
Jeffrey Waters <Jeffrey...@rich.frb.org> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 02:53:50PM -0400:
> 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.
Computers are from the ground up black/white devices. Think of a bit;
is there a grey state of existence for a bit? Hmm maybe it's partially
on, partially off eh? Technically, a specific definition, relative to
a particular set of pretenses, leaves no room for semi-qualification;
you either meet the requirements or you don't. What's at issue here is
which particular definition of an OS is the correct one; before we can
answer this we must qualify the system upon which we base our pretenses,
and upon which `correctness' is based. Personally, I've reached the
limit of my knowledge and can't offer any more, but I'm fairly certain
that there is some sort of technical definition for an OS. Here again,
this may also depend on our scope; the embedded chips come to mind.
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Scott
Willie Twonk
> . Personally, I've reached the
>limit of my knowledge and can't offer any more,
Whew!
Let it rest huh?