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!}

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