Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 9 Aug 2025 22:17:20 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071jbr$3ra8s$1@dont-email.me> <10721ce$3uf46$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1072ood$52ki$1@dont-email.me> <1074h32$l12k$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1075898.tgo.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <6897250c$0$415$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <1077chk$19a2o$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2iJiILDv/iuZA83XF6ELUAPikGGet6NBSMM3vHVq5jcY58wx0z Cancel-Lock: sha1:QKXUDYK+CGoTGNnQgOfYJExptt8= sha256:e81mzV0ZAui9IpIC99x9rPG6KdluU7oHYrMLXtkUA6w= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70711 On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 12:48:04 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 09/08/2025 11:38, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > > The purpose of an OS is to run >> useful programs. >> > Mmm. Interesting philosophical question. > > I am not sure you need an OS to do that. > > All you need is a boot loader of some sort. And that could be no more > than the Z80s hardware feature than on rest it reads address 0000H and > executes the instruction it finds there.... That leads to the question of whether Forth is an OS in some cases. Gforth isn't but I built Z-80 Forth systems where the boot vector went directly to the Forth interpreter. Is Mbed a OS? There was some consternation when Arm announced its end and people scrambled to replace it with Zephyr or FreeRTOS.