Re: c/c++: a new adventure

["Ben Kohlen" <bkohlen@hotmail.com>]

>Another point to make is that Linux is best to be compared to >Unix-type 
>OS's.

Of course Linux is _best_ to be compared to UNIX.  The express written goal 
of Linux is to be a free UNIX-like OS.  What I actually said was that Linux 
is _better_ compared to NT than DOS in terms of technology level and OS 
advancement.

>An Operating System is just the software which makes things work.

Thank you for your Sesame Street definition of operating systems... now that 
i'm edjikateed in this new-fangled computer junk maybe i can get a job doing 
some of this dot.commie stuff...

>The bios would be the program loader/boot strapper. :)

Once again thank you very much for educating me.  I have written bootloader 
code for embedded systems.  What I was saying in my comment about DOS being 
merely an advanced program loader, is that it doesn't provide the resource 
management one expects of a civilized operating system.  It's just a shell 
that provides a convenient platform to launch programs from.

>Heh heh.. and don't compare Linux to NT just because they run on computers
>and have Gui's. ;) I'm of the mind to think that NT really can't be
>compared to a Unix-type OS in terms of performance, reliability,
>scalability, extendibility, etc. (Market share does not equal >quality.)

Don't be condescending to me, or think that I don't know my stuff just 
because I said that Linux's _technology_level_ and advancement are _more_ on 
the level of NT than DOS.  I wasn't comparing Linux to NT because they have 
GUI's, I was commenting on the underlying system resource management 
capabilities. And don't lecture me on the quality of Microsoft products 
versus Free Software.  I use Linux everyday at work and home for 
developement and I help run Linux on embedded systems.

Yours with waning patience,
Ben.
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