OS Chauvinism

Folders Are Bad

Folders Are Bad

Bruce Ediger

I’ve written before about how much I despise baby talk descriptions of operating system abstractions as promoted by Microsoft.

The use of “folder” is particularly pernicious.

CP/M and VAX/VMS Memory Layout

Bruce Ediger

It’s often said that DEC operating systems influenced the design of the CP/M microcomputer OS. Let’s examine that assertion by looking at how a process was laid out in memory.