Agreed. I'll shut up now.
sorry for the bandwidth use.
Ulrich Czekalla wrote:
>
> Your both somewhat right. The general definition of an OS is a system that
> controls and coordinates the use of hardware among the various application
> programs for the various users. So it acts as a resource allocator (CPU,
> memory, file storage, IO,..) and a control program to solve various
> resource conflicts. There is no need for a traditional shell like
> bash or DOS-shell. Although it wouldn't be very interactive or interesting.
> Finally, a quote from the dinosaur book, that is Operating System
> Concepts, Silberschatz,
>
> "There is also no universally accepted definition of what is part of the OS
> and what is not. A simple viewpoint is that everything a vendor ships when
> you order "the operating system" should be considered...... A more common
> definition is that the operating system is the one program running at all
> times on the computer ( usually called the kernel )."
>
> This is probably one of the most used texts on the subject.
>
> -Ulrich
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