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shin_lao on Sept 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What People Like About the Plan 9 OS

It's the job of the OS to provide the hardware abstraction layer...

johnpmayer on Sept 7, 2013 [–]

So that's what an operating system is!

Tanenbaum considers it an extended machine and a resource manager [MOS 1.1]. So I think that calling something an OS even though it's not on the bare metal is still cromulent.

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