Jeffrey Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 02:53:50PM -0400:
> I hope that was the last message thread, this has gotten so out of hand I
> am ready to have my mail server dump them before they get to me.
> Just remember we all choose this wonderful life of computer engineering
> and have to deal and be able to accept that there are no BLACK/WHITE
> answers. All ya married men think of this like your wife, her attitude,
> feelings, thoughts, wants, etc..... subject to change and ya best be ready
> for it.
Computers are from the ground up black/white devices. Think of a bit;
is there a grey state of existence for a bit? Hmm maybe it's partially
on, partially off eh? Technically, a specific definition, relative to
a particular set of pretenses, leaves no room for semi-qualification;
you either meet the requirements or you don't. What's at issue here is
which particular definition of an OS is the correct one; before we can
answer this we must qualify the system upon which we base our pretenses,
and upon which `correctness' is based. Personally, I've reached the
limit of my knowledge and can't offer any more, but I'm fairly certain
that there is some sort of technical definition for an OS. Here again,
this may also depend on our scope; the embedded chips come to mind.
--
Scott
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