>>> On 8/18/2009 at 9:55 AM, Howard Brazee <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > So what are the minimum requirements that a product must have to be an > "operating system"?
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me there needs to be: - Some way to interact with the system (operator's console/commands, in Linux this would be a shell) - Some way to compile/assemble/link programs - Some way to edit a text file (IEBUPDATE, PDF, etc.) - Some sort of printer driver (HASP, JESx, CUPS) And probably other things, but you get the idea. Those things that make computers actually useful. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
