real operating system

2 definitions found

real operating system - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  real operating system
  
     <operating system, abuse> The sort the speaker is used to.
     People from the BSDophilic academic community are likely to
     issue comments like "System V?  Why don't you use a *real*
     operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial
     Unix sector are known to complain "BSD?  Why don't you use a
     *real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "Unix?
     Why don't you use a *real* operating system?"
  
     See holy wars, religious issues, proprietary, Get a real computer!
     .
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-03-12)
  

real operating system - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  real operating system
   n.
  
     The sort the speaker is used to. People from the BSDophilic academic
     community are likely to issue comments like "System V? Why don't you
     use a real operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial
     Unix sector are known to complain "BSD? Why don't you use a real
     operating system?", and people from IBM object "Unix? Why don't you
     use a real operating system?" Only MS-DOS is universally considered
     unreal. See holy wars, religious issues, proprietary, Get a real computer!