From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 06:05:16 GMT
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shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough) writes:
>: Windows were posted. What is your definition of an OS, and what
>: authority can you cite for that definition?
>
>It needs DOS to perform many resource management functions (esp. disk)
>therefor it cannot be an os.
So, by your argument, diskless workstations don't have an operating
system -- they need a server for disk.
Besides, Windows manages the disk. It does this through code running
in a V86 task. Big deal. It is still controlling the environment of
the V86 task. This is not really different from, say, a device driver
in Unix. DOS:Windows :: Device Driver:Unix.
--Tim Smith