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> R Garth Wood wrote:
>
> > What's an OS?
> > Paraphrasing from A. Tanenbaum Modern OSs : An operating system is
> > a piece of software that provides a layer of abstaction between the
> > computer hardware and an application.
>
> I'm not going to go and check, but I remember it as a resource manager
> (e.g. malloc) and an extension of the machine (e.g. filesystem).
> Anyway, for paraphrasing it's good enough. Point: It's not what
> Microsoft wants you to believe an OS is. :)
I think these fall under the unbrella of "abstraction between...".
Of course if you're a demo'er you can try to explain the concepts
of a file system and a resource manager to someone who doesn't
understand the concept of an OS...
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