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Your valid program is still a system that operates your hardware directly. So, still an OS?
by hartator 8y ago
Your valid program is still a system that operates your hardware directly. So, still an OS?
- Skunkleton 8y agoThis is a "bare metal" program, not an operating system.
- lostgame 8y agoAn OS, by general definition, usually contains the ability to launch applications developed for it, using the high-level API’s the OS provides to greatly simplify low-level hardware functionality, such as playing sound or displaying images. A program, by definition, is a running system which executes specific instruction sets, whether this is from a low-level, no-OS setup, such as an NES, or a MacOS program which makes extensive use of Core Image, Core Animation, Core Audio, et cetera. These are both programs. But only one of them actually runs in an OS.