Originally Posted by echoSwe
So you're saying operating systems have to be big? By what standard? What about mobile/sensor networks/smart dust research operating systems? Aren't they operating systems? http://www.tinyos.net/ for example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyos It's 579 812 bytes long, in its current size. I would wager to say, that's not a big collection of programs. And what about monolithic kernels where most of the actual OS is in kernel space?
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I don't recall ever saying anything about how large an OS needs to be. You did though
Originally Posted by echoSwe
As far as I'm concerned, an operating system is a big program.
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