P.A. Petricone wrote:
This is from the world's on-line folks at comp.os.research news group,
last update 1995.I wonder if they will re-write it in 1998?
-pap
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operating system
<operating system> (OS) The low-level software which schedules tasks,
allocates storage, handles the interface to peripheral hardware and
presents a default interface to the user when no application program is
running.The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various
system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform
higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a
client-server relationship.Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part
of the OS, others would not.The facilities an operating system provides and its general design
philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and
on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it
runs.Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel,
Artemis microkernel, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2,
GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach,
Macintosh operating system, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare,
OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360,
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS,
VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS, Windows 95, Windows NT.FAQ.
Usenet newsgroup: comp.os.research.
(04 Jan 1995)
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