Program loading.


R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
(no date)


Apparently, a number of people are interpreting the sentence (from the Loading
Programs for Execution section of the first programming assignment page)

  After boot-up initialization, the operating system should load and begin
  executing the first program on the batch disk;

as

  After boot-up initialization, the operating system should load and execute
  every program on the batch disk;

These two sentences are different, and only the first sentence (from the
assignment) is correct; the second sentence is incorrect, as is any operating
system that behaves in a way described by the second sentence.



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