[ale] academic study of PC operating systems

[sad at valinux.com]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:17:10PM +0100, Mark BennettDoy wrote:
> This is for real!!
> 
> Hello ALE,
>     I am a first year student with a major UK university and I would
> be grateful if someone could help me, As part of an assessment I have
> to examine the role of the operating system within the microcomputer,
> and compare the ways that the differing O/S operate. Obviusly I will
> have to cover the "other" major system but as I do not have any
> experience with linux I would appreciate some basic information such
> as it's history,the way its interface differs from Windows and anyother
> information you may feel is important(doesn't need to be to
> technical(please)).
> 
> Thanx for your time
> 
> Mark
> 
> :-)
> 
> ps yours was the first site pulled up via Yahoo in the UK

The best place to find out about Linux is probably the Linux Documentation
project web site http://www.linuxdoc.org

I believe a good document to start with would be the
"Linux Frequently Asked Questions With Answers" 

The direct URL for that would be:

http:www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/index.html 

That said I believe many folks on this list would tell you the best
way to find out the info you would need for your assignment would
be to either install Linux or set down in front of an existing Linux
system and get familiar with it first hand.

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Steven A. DuChene	sad at valinux.com
Southeast US Systems Engineer
VA Linux Systems	http://www.valinux.com
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