Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

[Scott McDermott]

Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:45:19AM -0600:
> I can also through some games in my Amiga at home which boot
> themselves.  Are they OSes?  No, they're programs. Remember, the key
> word is "system".

This implies, however, that no OS is running when you play said games.
Is this right?  The rest of your post made sense though; I especially
liked the statement that you could boot a computer with a few lines of
assembler.

Perhaps we can find something that is the most minimal OS that exists,
and what this provides, defines the mimimal requirement for
classification as an OS.

-- 
Scott


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