:)Hi all,

Can there be a Computer running a dedicated program (which accesses only Network information and processess it along with information entered by the User) without an Operating System itself ?  :-?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

_VinodYou must have an operating system for a computer to work.OS is like food. you must have it to survive.  I meant that the EXCLUSIVE program which needs to be run on the computer do the basic functions required for the program alone to run, like complete memory usage, hard disc usage (only for temporary data, as the data is going to be transmitted to another machine for permanent storage) and also handle a few choices of Processors?Without an operating system the computer has no function. It cannot PROCESS anything or run any program.But WHY would you want it to do that... Its quite pointless in my opinion:-/

SodaProbably a homework question.Can't say I blame him, though. I'd go here for answers to homework if I didn't have enough real problems as is.

Just to repeat and emphasize what was already said, computers need an operating system to do any real function. Now, this is not to say it will do NOTHING at all without an OS. I found that out trying to install XP OEM.

If you don't have an OS, the computer will get past the diagnostic screen, meaning it will recognize disks, memory, etc. but you'll get an error message before anything else happens. It needs to recognize the drives to install Windows/Linux/whatever in the first place, but you can't run programs, navigate drives, that kind of thing.This is not a HomeWork Question.

The point is that in order to run one single program which requires only a very limited operations and stores nothing in the HardDisk permanently, do we need a full fledged OS?

Cann't the program be added with some of the features of a Mono-tasking OS so that it can load and run on the machine?

_VinodI guess it depends on what the program will run on.
DOS is just a few MBs, 3.X is about 20MBs, W2K & XP can be skinned down to a couple of hundred or less, a skinny linux can be run from a floppy. :)I MEAN exactly that. Can there be an architecture possible that loads from a HardDisk and starts only one program and that's it. No more operations are required. It just has to look after that program's memory and Read/Write and Port Communc=ication operations.

That means the Os itself will be very lean and does not require high memory or other requirements.

The Licensing Fee also will be drastically reduced.

Am I right?What program do you want to run??Any DOS based system will do what you want as LONG as your executable will run in that environment of course.
If licencing costs are likely to become a problem, FreeDOS should be worth looking at.The Program run entirely based on HTML, JSP and other Web Based programming languages.

So the Skinned exclusive OS must be having some of the functionalities of IE.

I am not interest4ed in knowing whether there is already such a system. Can such a system be theoritically possible?LOL ......So I guess thats why your website is down ?   NO OPERATING SYSTEM

http://www.vinodpotty.cvspot.com/  

Just couldnt resist the comment .......

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