Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:23:50 +0200 > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, I am the author of a CP/M 2.2 BIOS that has seen some >> moderate distribution, and I don't remember ever coming across >> either the term "kernel" or "nucleus" in connection with CP/M. > > For which machine?
Nascom II, Z80 4MHz machine. >> It would actually appear to me to be pretty preposterous, since >> CP/M does not manage any system _resource_ worth mentioning. It >> provides access to the devices, but it does not manage memory, >> processing power, access, or even file ids (the caller has to >> allocate FCBs, the internal control structures for files, by >> itself, and pass the pointers into CP/M). There is no heap, no >> kernel thread, not even a system stack IIRC (though the CCP calls >> applications from its own stack, and if the application _returns_ >> instead of calling the exit BDOS function, the CCP assumes that it >> has not been overwritten by the application and continues). > > CP/M doesn't have the concept of a "process" either, or security, or > many of the basic functions we expect of an OS today. But it would > be churlish not to call it an operating system. Sigh. Focus. Right now we were talking about the words "kernel"/"nucleus", not the word "operating system". -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
