View Single Post
12-19-2008, 06:29 PM
#25
unclekyky is offline unclekyky
unclekyky's Avatar
Status: Junior Member
Join date: May 2005
Location:
Expertise:
Software:
 
Posts: 43
iTrader: 0 / 0%
 

unclekyky is on a distinguished road

  Old

Originally Posted by echoSwe View Post
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?
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.