Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/27/03:54:38
Rolf Campbell wrote:
> Darren Noble wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> > > * A tangent about win95 (not) being an os follows. *
> > >
> > > I agree that an environment hosted on, and using the services
> > > or, an other os is NOT an os itself.
> > > Win95 by this definition is NOT an os because it runs on DOS.
>
> But, doesn't DOS use BIOS routines to read from the keyboard (when it could very
> easily hook the interrupt). Doesn't it also use BIOS routines to do various tasks
> like changing screen-modes and reading/writing from a hard-drive? Could it then be
> said that DOS isn't an OS because it calls BIOS service routines?
>
> --
> -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318
I have read some good arguments the MSDOS is not an os because it doesn't have
a kernel, but a PCs BIOS is not an os in anyone's book, its just a api/lib, it manages
no resources.
P.S. Did we ever answer the original question? What was it?
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