Re: The Nature Of Operating Systems :-) (Was: Re: Linux Beer Hike)

[David Mitchell <nospam [at] fdgroup.co.uk>]

> Well, memory management, processes, threads, preemptive multitasking,
> dynamic link library support, power mangement, privilege levels, device
> drivers, event handling, TCP/IP stack, portable across multiple
> architectures, I could go on.... at which point does this not sound like an
> OS??


I was just thinking of how many of those features Windoze 3.x *didnt* have,
yet Microdross still spent years flogging it as an OS ;-)

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