> Just self-proclaimed authority who decided systems means operating system or some embedded code Systems does mean that. There are 2 broad categories of softw

> Just self-proclaimed authority who decided systems means operating system or some embedded code Systems does mean that. There are 2 broad categories of software you can write. One is software that provides a service to the user directly. That is an application. The other kind is software that provides a service to applications. That's systems software. Do you think there's something wrong with this notion? It's pretty well accepted over the decades: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming