"An operating system is similar to a government. Like a government, it performs no useful function by itself."

[ruoran]

"An operating system is similar to a government. Like a government, it performs no useful function by itself. It simply provides an environment within which other programs can do useful work."

Cited from:
Silberschatz, A., G. Gagne, and P. B. Galvin. Operating system concepts . 8th ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley & Sons, 2010. Print.

复习时看到了这个比喻句。

[Livid]

And our government has a really bad designed API.

[Xi]

强帖留名，不发表任评论

[est]

操作系统至少还能玩扫雷。government能玩啥？

[qingyulive]

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1044753

早在30年前就有人写过。要看还要付钱。

[shellex]

@est 扫地皮...

[bcxx]

@est 猛GOV敢于用1080核电脑扫雷~

[flyintonsow]

If our operating system is the only one in the world, I would definitely refuse to use computer.

[pepsin]

And our goverment's suggest hardware is hard to achieve.