Thursday, April 26, 2012

OS: It all depends on how you say it

This is the best one-line definition of an Operating System, I have come across so far.
Source: http://tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/devices/whatis.html

"An operating system is essentially a privileged, general, shareable library of low-level hardware and memory and process control functions and routines."

It kind of, takes away the halo that surrounds the word 'kernel' and 'operating system'. Isn't it?

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