Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:08:12 +0000 From: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Message-ID: <3327C3FC.3BDF@wgold.demon.co.uk> References: <199703121842.LAA27798@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Will you accept Tannebaum as a reference, or is that too prejudicial? 8-). No, I will not accept Tannenbaum. Deitel, others? Would *you* accept that the common language usage suggests that it is an OS, and that some of your criticisms of it are unfounded? Do you believe that real time environments that do not preemtively schedule and/or do not have full memory protection are not 'operating systems'? What about, say, Acorn's 'RiscOS'? The list of systems currently accepted as operating systems but that will be ruled out by one or more of your criteria is quite long. James
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