Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!barrett From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: September issue of Keyboard Message-ID: <2708@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 19:57:27 GMT References: <302@nigel.udel.EDU> Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 24 In article <302@nigel.udel.EDU> wilts@cavax.ab.ca (Ed Wilts) writes: >In September's issue of Keyboard.... >they also state (in the "Ready for the '90s" article) that "the new buzzword >is multi-tasking... >..."Atari software developers met (for the first time >ever) to hammer out an agreement on which operating system to adopt." >Does Atari have a multi-tasking operating system? :-) KEYBOARD and other electronic music magazines tend to misuse the term "operating system". A third-party company comes up with an environment in which several of its own programs can co-exist and share data, and this gets labeled an "operating system". The companies call it various things, like "program environment", but the magazines are using "OS" as a buzzword, much like "workstation" is misused. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett - Systems Administrator, Computer Science Department | | The Johns Hopkins University, 34th and Charles Sts., Baltimore, MD 21218 | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | BITNET: barrett@jhuvms.bitnet | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////