Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Operating Systems (Re: archimedes)
Keywords: Archimedes, OS
Message-ID: <12633@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 20 Nov 88 01:45:50 GMT
References: <1216@dutesta.UUCP> <2212@ficc.uu.net> <372@eutrc3.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  Everyone has their own "required" set of features to differentiate a
DOS from a real operating system. Mine certainly includes the concept of
file ownership and protection. To do that you have to be able to have
memory and i/o control of some sort, to prevent direct physical i/o.

  Everyone seems to agree the MS-DOS and CP/M are filesystems only, and
that UNIX and VMS are real o/s', it's the things in between which are
grey areas.

  Obviously there will be people who disagree with me, too.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me