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What would be your definition of an OS?

• mrheosuper 1y ago
  At least have a scheduler. That's bare minimum.
  • iamflimflam1 1y ago
    Would define MS-DOS as an operating system?
    • mrheosuper 1y ago
      Later vesion of ms-dos has scheduler, so yes. Early version to me is just a fancy bootloader, that boot whatever program you choose and give up complete system control to that program.
      • Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
        There is coreboot which is technically just linux but as the bootloader so a fancy bootloader could have many similarities with a os as although I know that linux is a kernel but I am not really sure as linux is also an operating system as well so the lines are definitely blurry and not as clear I suppose Fun fact I was actually thinking of a similar idea and I had always known about coreboot but I hadn't known that it was actually invented because someone figured out that the bootloader and the linux kernel had similarities and so that's why. it was an aha moment of me for sorts I came to know about this from the heads firmware ccc speech yesterday which I am going to link later as I saw it on my pc and I don't have its access right now See coreboot till then https://www.coreboot.org/ https://www.coreboot.org/ and also a fork of coreboot which removes propreitory blobs iirc https://libreboot.org/ https://libreboot.org/ as well
    • iberator 1y ago
      yes. It had an Impressive kernel API. It was a single user by design. Background resident programs were possible and common btw (TRS) especially after 286 came to the market.