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What is an OS?

Overview I've been debating with some UNIX types of late and with them there is some serious debate about "What is an OS (Operating System)". See, to many UNIX users/programmers it is only the kernel and maybe POSIX (the lowest levels of an OS), and what the programmers see but that definition is way too narrow for me. Rather than argue the same thing a few hundred more times, I figure I'll just write an article, put it up once, and (hopefully) explain these things to a lot of people along the way.

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Publisher	MacKiDo	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 1999	Downloads	14
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Mac OS, OS Interoperability

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