Daniel A. McLaughlin([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:24:54AM -0400: > So which part of Windows is the OS? > > File handling > I/O > GUI > .... > > Obviously it's a sum of its parts, as is Z/OS, Z/VM, Linux, Unix...and so > on. If a component is removed and renders it useless. it would seem to be, > IMHO, that it is germane to the OS. Can you work without JES, or a like > function? Not very well. > >
I meant to address one more thing in my previous post. When you ask "which parts would disable the system when removed", it isn't as practical as it may seem. The parts that your business relies on might not be part of the OS. If your mission-critical wintel application </shudder> requires the GUI, does that make the GUI part of the OS? If you were to remove the programs that comprise the GUI would the computer become unuseable? Windows (in it's current incarnation) probably would fail to be useable without the GUI, but that still wouldn't indicate that it is part of the OS in my opinion. This removal => uselessness criteria would be useful if the issues were not conflated by the users' definition of "useless" and the mixing of OS and non-OS functionality in the system software. (Each case would need to be evaluated separately. I'm not making any judgement with that statement.) Wade Curry Sr. Implementation Mgr., AT&T San Diego, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
