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Article #4225Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Isaac
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:37
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:37
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On 15 Jul 2002 23:54:09 +1000, devnull@iprimus.c0m.au <devnull@iprimus.c0m.au> wrote: > In article <3D32707E.7040108@quiotix.com>, Jeffrey Siegal wrote: >> And, >> importantly, no one has offered a credible authority that would define >> OS as to necessarily exclude essential non-kernel components such as >> boot loaders, core libraries, file management, session management, etc. > > A definition has already been posted, which is well known to anyone who > has studied computer science. Those scholarly definitions do not exclude the things Mr. Siegal cited from being part of an OS. By those definitions both the kernel and what you call an operating environment can legitimately be referred to as an operating system. Isaac
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