[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 6/19/2025 7:55 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:

>> You may have a strange idea of what an operating system is.
> 
> Ha, ha. You're probably right. I guess I'd say that a real operating 
> system, as opposed to a pseudo operating system or runtime executive, 
> must at least have an interrupt driven, preemptive scheduler. 

Sounds like you've been assuming that only "real" computers have that, 
and that definition of an "operating system" is a bit tight, take a look 
at https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/operating_system, they know a 
thing or two about the subject. (The scheduler is only part of an OS, 
and arguably not the most important one.)

(Bits about FF omitted as not relevant.)

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>> In terms of database systems, Oracle does have the largest share of 
>> corporate use, but only ~33% (followed by mysql, sql server, and 
>> postgresql). Lots of companies effectively -do- "run on oracle".
> 
> I believe that the SQLs are just services. But I won't argue the point.

They are, but you suggested that a lot of the Internet does not use 
Oracle ("runs on oracle", "runs" could be at multiple levels).


> Okay, consider *ux to be operating systems. I just wish it had more 
> uniformity, a decent hierarchical menu, and something like Windows 
> virtual links (which I guess MS now calls shortcuts).

You're conflating an "operating system" with the UI (and possibly with 
the distribution). MS-Windows is an OS and comes with both a GUI and a 
CLI. Pretty much all versions of *nix are considered to be an "operating 
system"s - the BSD variants are an OS which distributes with a CLI and 
on which you can install several different GUIs, same for linux. 
Consider that the vast majority of the servers "running the Internet" do 
not have a GUI installed at all, and may not even have graphics hardware.

(And you can install most of the *nix variants without any direct UI at 
all for those pesky embedded systems.)

z!