On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Just how many "POS" OS's where there?
It depends on your specific usage of the "POS" acronym. Many people
insist that Windoze is the biggest POS.
Actually, What
is an OS? Do the BASIC interpretters with buit-in
keyboasrd, video display and mass-storage handling count as OSes? I could
certainly argue they are...
I would definitely argue that BASIC in my Commodore
8-bit systems is an OS!
. . . and certainly any of the Microsoft Stand-Alone BASIC, such as Coco,
NEC-DOS, etc.
(which Patterson gave credit to as the inspiration for the MS-DOS FAT),
Did Apple ever talk about WHY Mac went with a similar linked list of
pointers?
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