First of all thanks for your patience. I'm the same one who asked you for some Unix books
[quote=porter;302138113]The shell is a command interpretor and can also be used as a human interface.
I didn't understand that. I read what a shell is. What is there inside the OS? As I wrote above, is it some bridge or something?
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Depends on who wrote the version used on your operating system. which is just another UNIX user program.
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Assuming its Linux or something. Assume its the most frequently used version or shell.
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Not for Windows 1 through 3.11 or NT 3.1 to 3.51.
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Yeah, thats why I said "most" :P
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Vista will have a similar shell, however we are led to believe Vista was a rewrite from the bottom up as the code became too complicated.
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Oh.. Great... Thanks for that...
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Neither were built on UNIX. Linux is just the kernel at the heart of GNU/Linux distributions, Microsoft did sell Xenix for a while but Windows was originally a graphical DOS extender.
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Another thanks... So was DOS built from scratch?
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As in if a Granny Smith was an apple, then what is an orange?
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You'd hate for this, but I didn't understand that... No not your example, but the answer to my question :P
