home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!stanford.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!bu.edu!jade.tufts.edu!news.tufts.edu!news.tufts.edu!tguez
- From: tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <TGUEZ.92Aug29190916@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 23:19:23 GMT
- References: <715053988.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>
- Sender: news@news.tufts.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
- Lines: 231
- In-Reply-To: Monroe.Thomas@ttlg.UUCP's message of 29 Aug 92 01:48:00 GMT
-
- > >Ok, if this is 100% correct and there is nothing else to say about
- > >windows and virtual-memory then why is it that windows must (and does)
- > >return the dos application to the same exact memory location it was
- > >swapped out from. If what you say is complete and accurate windows
- > >should be able to move DOS apps all around and have no trouble with
- > >them in that respect.
- >
- > It DOES move DOS apps all around memory with no trouble! How do you
- Not according to documentation.
- > think you can have more than one DOS box running at once? Each DOS
- Different memory locations (fixed memory locations).
- > box is located in a different part of physical memory, but Windows
- > "virtualizes" the address space seen by each DOS box so that each DOS
- > box sees the same addresses.
-
-
- > -------------------
- > --------------- Windows Application
- > DOS application -------------------
- > --------------- |
- > | -------------------
- > | Windows API layer
- > |
- > | Device drivers
- > | Scheduler
- > | Memory manager
- > | -------------------
- > | | |
- > | ---------------------- |
- > | Windows device drivers |
- > | ---------------------- |
- > | | |
- > | | |
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > V M M
-
- NA> Scheduler
- How in the world do you say SCHEDULER is not apart of an operatgins syetem?
- > Memory manager
- > Device drivers
- > File I/O subsystem (*)
-
- NA> ----------------------------------------------------
- Here it's acceptible, but don't forget this is a quoatation of an
- email, and this refers to a part not quoted. But with this is email,
- I accept an NA here.
- > [ The comand interperter goes here, and you have more dos
- > applications at this level, windows relies in the shell's
- > environement varaibles and many of settings, windows is
- > already too high up to be an OP, which is supposed to be
- > the lowest thing interacting with the hardware not
- > above a user interperter shell (device-drivers are a part of
- > an opearting system]
- > | |
- > | |
- > ---------------------
- > Global TSR
- > ---------------------
- > | |
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > V M M (inserts itself in between)
- > [here you go, this is painful, windows sends hooks
- > to places it should not, it has to do this because
- > it tries to be more then a shell, which it is much
- > closer to].
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > | |
- > ------------- |
- > MS-DOS device |
- > drivers |
- > ------------- |
- > | |
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > V M M (inserts itself in between) (z)
- > [this is what I mean, it intervines, replaces and
- > disturbes the whole ms-dos operating system
- > to an extent that it should take dos out and
- > replace it completely. It looks more like an
- > extension. Don't tell me layered OS again, no
- > layered appliations are above an interperter like
- > command.com and side to side with applications.
- > The VM operating system is the classical example
- > of nestted operating system, read my last post
- > to heath (just because I summarized it there
- > that is incase you are not farmiler with it)]
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > | | | |
- > -------------------- | |
- > MS-DOS kernel | |
- > -------------------- | |
- > | | | |
- > ----------------------------| |
- > VMM (inserts itself in between) |
- > same
- > ----------------------------| |
- > | | | |
- > ----------------------------------------------------
- > ROM-BIOS
-
- > OK, this illustrates my point exactly... you've shown several places
- > where the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) inserts itself between DOS
- > stuff and other layers. And, by the way, the DOS application part
- Please use the word implants, it's better it describes better what
- windows is doing to DOS.
-
- > the top of the diagram is NOT referring to a DOS application running
- > in native DOS, it is referring to a DOS app being managed by
- > *Windows*. And where does the VMM come from... well... surprise
- No you are mis-interepreting the diagram, this diagram shows two
- separate operating systems. The [dos-applications] box refers to the
- state in which dos-apps are running and windows is not installed. We
- are not refering there to dos-boxes.
-
- > here... the VMM is part of Windows!!! So as the diagram so pointedly
- > makes obvious, DOS is no longer in control of the machine... the
- > VMM
- I am going to quote an email (I did not write this) again:
- ***
- MS-DOS is given control occasionally, and therefore
- MS-DOS device drivers are given control occasionally,
- ***
- Hence, the operating systems whos device drivers are used is
- operational. If you would of understood the concept of virtual
- machines you would not get confused:
- **************************** (I answered this)
- >| IBM's VM
- >| operating system (virtual machine) running CPM is a classical layered
- >| opearting system, were everything underneath the top operating system
- >| is viewed by this top opearting system as the underline machine.
- >
- >So what happens when CP/M tries to access a device that VM does not
- >understand?
- That is the point.
-
- CPM operating system does not know of the existence of the VM
- operating system and therefore it does not use any of VM's device
- drivers. That is your mistake, in a Virtual Machine construct, which
- is implemented by IBM (who pioneered the VM research), the VM
- operating system creates a virtual hardware.
- *******************************
- ...the illusion of multiple processes. This virtual machine
- concept does not provide any additional functionally, it
- provides multiple, identical virtual copies of the bare
- underlying hardware(1). Virtual machines are obliged, by their
- nature and concept, to support virtual disk-drives, virtual
- printers (otherwise known as spooling) and (even) virtual tape
- drivers. A process or a user that is given a virtual machine
- can run any software that is available to the underline machine.
- On the VM operating system (which I mistook for the CP/M, in an
- earlier post) , which IBM wrote, the user would typically run a
- single-user operating system, I think it's the CMS operating
- system. Yes, here you have a classical scenario of an operating
- system nested within an operating system. However, notice that
- the inner operating system does not depend on the services of
- the outer operating system, it does not even know of it's...
- ********************************
- You see (1), the nested operating system things it deals directly with
- the (virtual) hardware and uses only it's own device-driver because
- for all it knows there is nothing but a bare machine underneath it.
-
- **** another related email (I answered this)
- > OS/2 applications cannot use MS-DOS device drivers.
- Be careful. There is no sense if there are TWO or more operating
- systems controling the same hardware. The paradigram is that one
- operating system is on top of the other. Then the top operating
- system is viewing everything underneath it as hardware, which it has
- to control, manage, and allocate resources from. Hence, the top
- operating system would NOT use any of the lower operating system's
- device drivers (technically this should be written, "Hence, the top
- operating system would NOT use any of the lower operating system's
- device drivers KNOWNLY). For instance, if the top operating system
- uses a tape drive that is apart of the (virtual) hardware it sees, the
- bottom operating system is activating a device driver (it's own).
- Also note that the (virtual) hardware the top operating system sees,
- projects a (virtual) tape drive, that does not mean that the real physical
- hardare the lower operating system is running on actually has a tape
- drive (not complete but close enough example is the ramdrive.sys that
- looks like a network drive to applications above dos, but the
- (physical) computer is not connected to any network).
- ******************
-
-
-
- > is... and the VMM is part of Windows. So, are you willing to finally
- > admit that DOS is no longer in control of the machine when Windows is
- > running? It was you who said in another post that YOUR criterion
-
- It's not mine, it's in every operarting system book it follows from
- (every reasonably detailed (a few lines) definition of an operating
- system, and what I said (at least ment to say) that the operating
- system as a unit (look at OS/2 diagram, the whole box beginning with
- "+==+" and ending with "+==+").
-
- You are also making the following mistake because you don't understand
- comprehand what an operating system is:
-
- ******* (I answered this)
- >Okay, how about this: "VMM is an operating system"
- >
- >*Everything* passes through VMM. No exceptions. VMM interacts with the
- >hardware. Even DOS device drivers don't access hardware directly. Their
- >attempts to access the hardware are filtered through VMM.
- >
- No this is not correct, you are starting to disassemble parts of an
- operating system and asking is this it, when an operating systems is
- the sum of it's parts (i.e. memory management in emm would not
- consistue an OP but this is a prerequist (sp?) to an opearing system,
- managing resources). The whole box contain the OS/2 diagram is the
- OS/2, don't look at each box inside and ask is that the
- operating system, that would be as silley as asking is io.sys and
- operating system or bios.sys or mouse.sys is an operating system?
- ********
-
- > an OS is (paraphrased) the last layer between applications and the
- > hardware. The last layer is the VMM, which is part of Windows.
- > diagram has made that plainly obvious... thanks for providing the
- > diagram... I couldn't have drawn it better myself! 8)
- You are welcome.
-
- > -Monroe
- >
- > * OLX 2.2 * "I love cats," Tom mused.
- >
- > * Origin: Through the Looking Glass (42:100/14)
- You don't understand the concept of an operating system and hence you
- don't understand the arguments presented. Hence, I'll be more
- elaborative and less concise starting with the explanation of the
- argument "What operating system, which crashes, leaves the computer
- operational?" in the next post.
-
- -Tomer
-