In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 08/28/2006
at 06:45 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is there a general consensus about what pieces or aspects of the
>software shipped with z/OS would be defined as the "operating
>system"?
Well, historically IBM has used the term OS to include everything
bundled with the system.
>Especially since z/OS comes also with a UNIX kernel.
Which isn't a kernel in the sense that the CS mean. In fact, it would
be hard to find a part of MVS that qualified as a "kernel"; it really
doesn't fit that model.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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