In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 08/28/2006
at 02:13 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It depends on your definition of of "operating system". The
>classical definition is the chunk of software that manages the real
>system resources, allocating them to application programs.
You don't consider access methods to be part of the operating system?
Common services like DAIR and PARSE?
For IBSYS/IBJOB and OS/360 IBM considered the entire code base to be
an operating system.
>That would be, again classically, just BCP: the thing that holds the
>SVCs.
Not all SVC's are in the BCP, and most of the BCP is not composed of
SVC's, at least not for MVS.
--
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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