There is coreboot which is technically just linux but as the bootloader so a fancy bootloader could have many similarities with a os as although I know that linux is a kernel but I am not really sure as linux is also an operating system as well so the lines are definitely blurry and not as clear I suppose
Fun fact I was actually thinking of a similar idea and I had always known about coreboot but I hadn't known that it was actually invented because someone figured out that the bootloader and the linux kernel had similarities and so that's why. it was an aha moment of me for sorts
I came to know about this from the heads firmware ccc speech yesterday which I am going to link later as I saw it on my pc and I don't have its access right now
yes. It had an Impressive kernel API.
It was a single user by design. Background resident programs were possible and common btw (TRS) especially after 286 came to the market.
I'm not sure a definition of "operating system" that doesn't cover this software is particularly meaningful.
it's just misleading to me, i was expecting a brand new RTOS.
People keep throwing OS into anything that is slightly look like a graphic interface.
What would be your definition of an OS?
At least have a scheduler. That's bare minimum.
Would define MS-DOS as an operating system?
Later vesion of ms-dos has scheduler, so yes.
Early version to me is just a fancy bootloader, that boot whatever program you choose and give up complete system control to that program.
There is coreboot which is technically just linux but as the bootloader so a fancy bootloader could have many similarities with a os as although I know that linux is a kernel but I am not really sure as linux is also an operating system as well so the lines are definitely blurry and not as clear I suppose
Fun fact I was actually thinking of a similar idea and I had always known about coreboot but I hadn't known that it was actually invented because someone figured out that the bootloader and the linux kernel had similarities and so that's why. it was an aha moment of me for sorts
I came to know about this from the heads firmware ccc speech yesterday which I am going to link later as I saw it on my pc and I don't have its access right now
See coreboot till then https://www.coreboot.org/ and also a fork of coreboot which removes propreitory blobs iirc https://libreboot.org/ as well
yes. It had an Impressive kernel API. It was a single user by design. Background resident programs were possible and common btw (TRS) especially after 286 came to the market.