On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:35 +0200, Gadi Evron said: > der Mouse wrote: > >>>> "An operating system" in general may or may not be [split into > >>>> core, GUI, and CLI]; indeed, plenty of operating systems do not > >>>> have anything at all that could reasonably be called a GUI, much > >>>> less structure like what you sketch. > >> 1) Either convince me that Cisco's IOS and Juniper's JunOS are in > >> fact *not* operating systems, or point out to me how they're split > >> into a core, a CLI, and a GUI. > > > > You don't need to go even that far. Just consider NetBSD (or Linux, or > > whatever) on hardware without a GUI-capable framebuffer - or, if that's > > not enough, on hardware which can't be given one (I've got a board from > > Mesanet on which it would be difficult-to-impossible to add GUI-capable > > hardware). > > We're talking about Mac here, right?
No, the original quote was "an operating system is build of...", not "OSX is built of".
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