Re:Bill Gates' Philanthropic Impact Put in Perspective
by JoeAltmaier on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:36PM
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CP/M and MS-DOS weren't really an 'operating system' in the sense that they didn't mediate application access to system resources. They didn't let two apps share even fundamental devices like the clock, timer interrupts, networks, serial ports and on and on. In fact they didn't support multiple apps much at all.
I would call both of them 'monitors' or something. Operating System is way to ambitious a name for what they did.
I would call both of them 'monitors' or something. Operating System is way to ambitious a name for what they did.