This is my series on operating systems! I realized that most people don’t really know what an operating system is. Think of this is as a short introductory book, designed for an audience of people who aren’t programmers---yet---but who aren’t scared to learn skills that mostly only programmers know.
- In What is an operating system?, I try to arrive at a definition of an operating system, discussing some historical operating systems that barely qualify in an attempt to do so.
- Operating Systems Part II: Modern Operating Systems, I tour modern operating systems to apply some of these concepts.
- Components of a Modern Operating System, I dive into a bit into what makes modern operating systems tick.
- Operating Systems: What is the command line?, I try to demystify the black box with green letters that everyone seems to have learned to be scared of in the 2000s due to corporate propaganda telling everyone that only graphical user interfaces will save them from satan and hellfire.