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Look At It This Way: MSDOS Is An Overgrown Program Loade
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Look at it this way: MSDOS is an overgrown program loader; the MacOS
is an overgrown user interface. Neither is an operating system, but
the second is better for running applications.
-- Paul Placeway
Related:
operating system n. [techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine
hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications....
There's no bug in this program. It's the operating system!!
operating system:: [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine, of course
hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications....
Oh, screw you! You want an easy computer to use, go by a Mac.
This operating system is user fiendly, not user friendly, and it's going to stay that way!!...
boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
Elite Nerds Create Linux Distro From Hell HELL, MICHIGAN -- A group of long-time Linux zealots and newbie haters have thrown together a new Linux distro called Hellix that is so user-hostile
o anti-newbie, so cryptic, and so old-fashioned that it actually makes MS-DOS look like a real operating system....
Janus? Well, look at it this way. If you squint a little, the J could be Amiga checkmark, and the rest of the word describes MsDos.
wheel bit n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....