Eero Ahonen wrote:
> And to make it even more unclear, you can run bunch of these "piles"
> simultaneously on that single physical machine. Just add virtualization
> layer, such as Xen/HyperV/ESX :).

That's kind of what I was thinking in terms of BIOS vs OS.  Xen is an OS, 
because it can run multiple applications, even tho those applications are 
OSes. A BIOS isn't an OS, even tho it runs an application that's an OS, 
because it isn't helping share resources in any way.

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