On 07/12/2007, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uh no.  POSIX does not lay out what it means to be a "type of operating
> system".  It lays out what _interfaces_ must be there for certain
> degrees of POSIX compliancy.  It does not require the embodiment of
> those interfaces to run under the name "operating system".

I consider that to be a good enough definition of "operating system"

-- 
Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/>

"Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman


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