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- From: joda@cat.de (Joachim Dathe)
- Subject: Re: DOS not operating system, film at 11. :)
- Message-ID: <r64gg4.khb@cat.de>
- Organization: C.A.T. Kommunikations-System
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 23:16:51 GMT
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- To all who are so desperately looking for a common OS definition :
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- This item was standardized long time ago.
- According to ISO document 2382/I 1974-12-15 an operating system is:
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- "Software for controlling the execution of computer programs and
- that may provide scheduling, debugging, input/output control,
- accounting, compilation, storage allocation, data management,
- and related services "
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- (I fear I have to explain "ISO" here:
- stands for "International Organization for Standardization")
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- Joachim Dathe (joda@cat.de)
- C.A.T. Kommunikations-System, Frankfurt, Germany
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