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> The "what" part is difficult to answer, except to note that DOS is in many ways what textbooks on operating systems call a microkernel. DOS provides a small b
by msla 2y ago
> The "what" part is difficult to answer, except to note that DOS is in many ways what textbooks on operating systems call a microkernel. DOS provides a small bare minimum of services, on top of which other, more sophisticated, services can be built.
I think I heard Tanenbaum twitch.
- userbinator 2y agoI think DOS is closer to a "library OS" or unikernel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel OS virtualization can overcome some of these drawbacks on commodity hardware. ...and that's exactly what Windows/386 and later did.