Warp wrote:
>   It's not *my* definition.

 From WikiPedia:

"""
An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the infrastructure 
software component of a computer system; it is responsible for the 
management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited 
resources of the computer. The operating system acts as a host for 
applications that are run on the machine. As a host, one of the purposes of 
an operating system is to handle the details of the operation of the 
hardware. This relieves application programs from having to manage these 
details and makes it easier to write applications.
"""

Sure sounds like MS-DOS to me. And CP/M, and TRS-DOS, for that matter. 
Unless you don't count memory, serial and parallel ports, keyboard, disk 
space, and network connections as "limited resources".

Follow-ups yet again redirected.
-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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