From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu Subject: (none) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 05:51:33 GMT
f6930910@scheme.cs.ubc.ca (Ken) writes:
|To become an operating system, Linux needs to look like Berkeley's
|Net-2 tapes, or the USL source tree, or the VMS source tree, or
|any other complete system. This will be a major undertaking
|(seeing to it that there are manuals for everything would alone
|be a major undertaking).
|The Linux kernel is the most amazing peice [sic] of software I have
|ever witnessed -- but it is not an operating system.
What is it then?
By the above definition, neither MSDOS nor VM nor any of the earlier
DEC OS's would be considered 'operating systems'.
Even the original UN*X on a pdp11 would not qualify!
Get real!
Unfortunately, there seems to be a great deal of this sort of talk
around. Personally, I make sure I consider carefully if I even
want to respond to people carping about the 'correctness' (quotes mine)
of an operating system or what other people should be doing. Generally,
such a posting merely limns the ignorance of the poster.
If you want to change the situation, you are free to do so.
In the interim, postings such as these will only generate much heat
and little light.
Jim, Keeper of the Kernel and High Priest of the Man(2) Pages
[ no :-)'s apply ]