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Any Program That Calls Itself An OS (e.g. "MSDOS") Isn't One. -- Geoff Collye
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Any program that calls itself an OS (e.g. "MSDOS") isn't one.
-- Geoff Collyer
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Open systems' is a command, like `open sesame' -- it means they want your wallet to open.
-- Geoff Collye...
ystem n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
ystem: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
What does "grep" mean? The letters grep indicate "Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print.
In standard Unix system editors, the notation is g/re/p where re is a regular expression....
T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E
A pacifist who calls the police isn't one; hired violence is still violence.
-- Clayton E. Cramer optilink!crame...
footprint n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
Look at it this way: MSDOS is an overgrown program loade
he MacOS is an overgrown user interface. Neither is an operating system, but the second is better for running applications....
MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....