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Daniel Nowlin -----Original Message-----
can any one help me or know what the following term is
Kernel: When referring to a computer operating system the kernel is the first section of the operating system to load into memory. The computer kernel can be responsible for one or more of the following: disk drive management, interrupt handler, file management, memory management, process management, etc.. ------------------------- i368 sparc ultrasparc amiga (m680x0): First desktop multitasking computer. It had a GUI interface and a CLI (command line interface), Exelent graphics for the time, stereo sound, speech synth and was based on the Motorola 68000 chip. It was the brain child of Jay Minor. Mr Minor and his develop team sold the machine to Commodore so they could pay off Atari who fronted Mr Minor the money to build it. mac(powermac) mips alpha extfs ntfs ext2fs: Linux file system vfat :(Virtual File Allocation Table) The file system used in Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95/98. It provides 32-bit Protected Mode access for file manipulation. VFAT is faster than, but also compatible with, the DOS 16-bit File Allocation Table (FAT). In Windows for Workgroups, VFAT was called "32-bit file access." In Windows 95/98, it supports long file names up to 255 characters. hpfs ufs
This following is not right. The definition that is given is for ntfs. Nfs stand for network file system.
nfs :(NT File System) A file system used in Windows NT that uses the Unicode character set and allows file names up to 255 characters in length. The NTFS is designed to recover on the fly from hard disk crashes. Windows NT supports multiple file systems. It can run with a DOS/Windows FAT, an OS/2 HPFS and a native NTFS, each in a different partition on the hard disk. NT's security features require that the NTFS be used
fat :(File Allocation Table) The part of the DOS, Windows and OS/2 file system that keeps track of where data is stored on disk. When the disk is high-level formatted, the FAT is recorded twice and contains a table with an entry for each disk cluster minix NDS |