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Re: App

From	lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
Subject	Re: App
Date	2024-05-04 23:40 -0600
Organization	The Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company
Message-ID	<v17640$1mr7d$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <04b3ed96-2f9a-dd5a-f89b-fc7489508d39@invalid.nospam> <v0o7jj$1p36l$1@dont-email.me> <stfb3jtim97u30527i7sookn726gg16dll@4ax.com> <v14jj8$12jqr$1@dont-email.me> <6gpc3jd9r88890sdl1lirf410lm8a36haq@4ax.com>

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On 2024-05-04 10:56, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sat, 4 May 2024 02:11:51 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/4/2024 1:01 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> Yes, they're all programs, but some are applications, like word
>>> processors, spreadsheets, databases etc.
>>>
>>> But I have a program called "Glary Utilities", which is not an
>>> application. It just helps the computer to run better. Likewise, the
>>> operating system is a program, but not an application.
>>
>> The operating system is not a program. It is an executive.
> 
> In MyEnglish the definition of a program is "a set of instructions to
> operate a computer". Is this "Executive" not that?

I agree with you on that one, Steve.

> My first computer had an OS in ROM, with built-in BASIC, with which
> you could write other programs and save them and their data on tape,
> but all were programs.

The first computer I worked on, though it was not called a computer, but 
rather an 'Electronic Accounting Machine'. I 'wrote' programs on it by 
plugging wires into a board that made contact with relays.

It was definitely a computer, though, stepping through programs, doing 
math, branching on tested conditions, and reading and writing to and 
from I/O devices.

I worked on that for about two years, at which time I started working on 
a different set of machines, and found out that a program could actually 
be stored in a memory.

> With a couple of add-ons you could have a DOS
> (CP/M), and save stuff on floppy disks, but that by-passed the BASIC
> in ROM, so you had to get programming languages that ran under CP/M,
> but whether they loaded from ROM, tape or disks, all there sets of
> instructions tomake the computer do different things.

-- 
A computer won't stop you being an idiot,
but it'll make you a faster, better idiot

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Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-25 03:57 -0700
  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-25 08:27 -0400
  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2024-04-25 14:46 +0100
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      Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-04-28 13:58 -0500
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          Re: App Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-04-29 13:36 +0300
            Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-29 12:50 +0200
          Re: App nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-04-29 13:45 +0200
            Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-29 13:47 +0200
          Re: App Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-29 08:59 -0400
            Re: App "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-29 06:33 -0700
              Re: App Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-29 13:38 -0400
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-04-30 10:47 +1000
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-04-29 22:21 -0400
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-04-30 14:18 +1000
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-04-30 14:31 +1000
                Re: App Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-30 08:45 -0400
                Re: App Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-29 22:48 -0400
                Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-30 09:32 +0200
                Re: App Newyana2 <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-04-30 09:28 -0400
                Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-30 09:27 +0200
                Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-30 11:06 +0200
              Re: App Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2024-05-04 07:01 +0200
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-04 02:11 -0400
                Re: App John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2024-05-04 10:28 +0100
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-04 10:43 -0400
                Re: App Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-05-04 14:51 +0000
                Re: App Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2024-05-04 18:56 +0200
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-04 19:25 -0400
                Re: App Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2024-05-05 14:02 -0500
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-05-05 13:59 +1000
                Re: App Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2024-05-06 05:56 +0200
                Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-05-06 07:37 +0200
                Re: App Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2024-05-06 07:15 -0700
                Re: App lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2024-05-04 23:40 -0600
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-05-05 18:15 +1000
                Re: App lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2024-05-05 23:18 -0600
                Re: App nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-05-06 13:52 +0200
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-06 14:47 -0400
                Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-05-07 10:09 +1000
                Re: App Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2024-05-14 15:31 -0500
                Re: App lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2024-05-14 22:40 -0600
                Re: App lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> - 2024-05-06 19:18 -0600
                Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-05-06 22:14 -0400
                Re: App nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-05-07 10:41 +0200
                Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-05-05 11:28 +0200
                Re: App Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2024-05-06 06:02 +0200
                Re: App 0rby <graham@custompc.plus.com> - 2024-05-04 18:34 +0100
                Re: App 0rby <graham@custompc.plus.com> - 2024-05-04 18:46 +0100
            Re: App Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2024-04-30 10:48 +1000
            Re: App Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2024-05-05 23:40 +0300
          Re: App Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-04-29 17:05 -0400
            Re: App Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-04-30 09:35 +0200
        Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-29 05:53 -0700
  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-04-25 14:30 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-04-25 08:51 -0700
      Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-04-25 13:32 -0500
        Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-28 07:34 -0700
          Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-04-28 13:53 -0500
            Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-29 06:15 -0700
            Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-04-29 12:00 -0500
    Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-04-25 17:47 +0000
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      Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2024-04-28 07:49 -0700
        Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-04-28 13:59 -0400
  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2024-04-25 16:56 +0100
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  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-04-25 12:44 -0500
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  Re: Windows 10 is randomly removing programs without telling me micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-04-26 02:13 -0400
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