Re:After All These Years, the World Is Still Powered by C Pr...
by kazinator on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:38PM
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> to boot some hardware and coordinate some processes is too low a barrier.
No it obviously isn't. If it boots and coordinates processes, it's an OS.
> expensive niche workstation
In the Lisp machine era, anything that actually had a "real OS" was an expensive workstation (or mini, mainframe, etc).
Affordable consumer machines had software most examples of which didn't control processes, yet was still called some kind of OS: MS-DOS, Mac OS, and the like.
No it obviously isn't. If it boots and coordinates processes, it's an OS.
> expensive niche workstation
In the Lisp machine era, anything that actually had a "real OS" was an expensive workstation (or mini, mainframe, etc).
Affordable consumer machines had software most examples of which didn't control processes, yet was still called some kind of OS: MS-DOS, Mac OS, and the like.