From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 10:53:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14027 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk (wgold.demon.co.uk [158.152.96.124]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13993 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk by wgold.demon.co.uk (NTMail 3.02.10) with ESMTP id ja001257 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:08:12 +0000 Message-ID: <3327C3FC.3BDF@wgold.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:08:12 +0000 From: James Mansion Organization: Westongold Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns References: <199703121842.LAA27798@phaeton.artisoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Info: Westongold Ltd: +44 1992 620025 www.westongold.com Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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