Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: words and their opposites (Eunice) Message-ID: <538@rtech.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 04:36:46 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.538 Posted: Sat Jul 6 04:36:46 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:38:58 EDT References: <1542@orca.UUCP> <172@drivax.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 14 > Does Eunice run "under" or "on top of" VMS? > I've heard it described both ways, by people > meaning the same thing. To say that a program runs "under" an operating system usually only means that it runs on computers using that operating system. To say that a program runs "on top of" an operating system usually means that it hides some of the characteristics of the operating system. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff