Re: [Freedos-user] What is OS ?

2004-10-29 Thread Nicholas Basso
OS stands for operating system. In simple terms this is the main program the computer runs. As far as any computer's concerned, when it's doing anything, that's the operating system. An operating system could be any program. If you wrote an embedded computer program to manage a thermostat for yo

[Freedos-user] bad zipfile offset with latest freedos

2004-10-29 Thread CARDONA Patrick
Hi, I recently installed freedos (beta 9) and then made a cdrom with dos tools and games in zip format. All these zip files are good when I read them in an ext3 partition with Linux (fc2) where I made testing and created the cdrom with K3B. But I can't achieve to use these zip files on freedos bec

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Re: [Freedos-user] What is OS ?

2004-10-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Окт-2004 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasad Mehendale) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PM> My question is- PM> Is it possible to describe an OS in short ? If yes, can any one do this for PM> me? OS is a set of services and utilities, which controls hardware resources and manage programs its