From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used by Richard Stallman Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:46:36 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86ftxj1vb7.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20181005122626.7f3ff4e0c0d512461fd07078@speakeasy.net> <86k1mw12h4.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538804909 29040 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2018 05:48:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 05:48:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 07:48:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g8fRu-0007Rk-Px for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:48:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38067 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8fU1-0007k3-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 01:50:33 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:a1c:f213:: with SMTP id s19-v6mr1533123wmc.23.1538804797383; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q200-v6no2037194wmd.0!news-out.google.com!z184-v6ni6771wmz.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!78.46.240.70.MISMATCH!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xQsFb8j6c/kdg9AvIrnVFA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:iJt8FmJ3r/KYKU3VHu6bdDM0IfY= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224018 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118144 Archived-At: Van L wrote: >> What is the Emacs KERNEL then? > > Have you heard of the HURD? which is not > Windows on ZTE/Lenovo. Have I heard of it? I was the first who mentioned it in this thread. Perhaps not in a sensible way... The Emacs kernel is, I think, the part of Emacs that runs all the time, that loops indefinitely unless told otherwise, and from which Emacs can schedule things with, for example, the idle timer. This makes Emacs an OS not just in the "interface-to-the-whole-computer" sense, but also in the scheduler sense. But it isn't a Unix OS just because it is a scheduler. These are just clues I've picked up... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573