Re: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits... -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits...
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:31:55 -0500
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From: Jim Damato <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
> Obviously the administrators of unixguide.net have
> read Fortress Rochester and have seen that even
> Frank Soltis considers OS/400 to be middleware.  I'm
> sure they'll add SLIC as a choice by Monday.
>

interesting point, but doesn't even Linux run on top of the hypervisor
and is thus middleware as well?  :-)
I think the O/S should be defined as the visible portion of the system
that programmers and users directly interact with.

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