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- From: engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- Message-ID: <Bzztwo.6vB@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
- References: <MRMIKE.92Dec28153629@michelotti.ae.ge.com> <1992Dec28.210422.18243@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:43:36 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.210422.18243@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
-
- >Mr. Mike" Passaretti (mrmike@michelotti.ae.ge.com) wrote:
-
- >: Right. We're hearing discussion on what makes an OS from an
- >: applications programmer.
-
- >Even if I were "just an applications programmer" (and I'm not), why am
- >I any less qualified than you to say what is and what is not an operating
- >system? Is a driver any less qualified than a mechanic to say what is
- >and what is not a car?
-
- That's not necessarily true. Things appear differently to
- different people. The OS may appear as a virtual machine to
- one person, and parts of the OS may appear to be application
- programs to someone else. It just depends on your point of
- view---like relativity. :-)
-
- >OS's don't exist for OS developers; they exist
- >for application programmers and users; *they* are the ones who define what
- >goes into an OS, not you.
-
- That's also debatable. The interaction certainly does not flow in
- one direction only. Users can define all they want---they don't have
- to make it work.
-
- Ben
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