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In Light of Microsoft Update, Writer Explains What an Operating System Does.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Fortt, Jon
Sep. 10--What is an operating system anyway? As Microsoft rolls out its latest OS, Windows Millennium Edition, let's go back to basics and get clear on what exactly an operating system does.
Mostly, we know the operating system as the software program that gives the computer desktop its aesthetic look, and determines what programs a computer can and cannot run. The Mac OS looks different from Windows for instance, and one can't run the other's software without some tweaking.
But there's more to it than that.
This is an imperfect metaphor, but imagine waking up and finding that someone had turned you into a walking, talking, newspaper-reading computer -- what science fiction writers often call an android. What you now call your brain would be...
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