Talk:Comparison of operating systems

Nomenclature -

One column of the table in § Technical information is headed Update management, but there is no explanation of what the term means. The obvious answer is batch editors, but what appears in that column is configuration control software. There should be an explicit explanation. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 01:49, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Technical information

Should the table be in alphabetical order? Should it include all the IBM mainframe systems listed in § General information, e.g., MVS (OS/VS2 R2 through R3.8), MVS (MVS/SE through MVS/ESA), OS/390? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 17:46, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Refs 05-07

https://support.microsoft.com/help/5083768 ~2026-27495-20 (talk) 06:28, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

OK, we should also consider it as a family, as Linux is considered gtp (talk) 07:04, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Trimming "Nomenclature" section

The "Nomenclature" section used to contain, among other things, these lines:

GPL2

GPL3

Per user

The fee depends on the maximum number of users concurrently logged on.

This makes it look like GPL2 and GPL3 involve fees, which, of course, is nonsense.

I was about to change it to something like

GPL2

GPL3

Versions 2 and 3 of the GNU General Public License, which do not require fees.

Per user

The fee depends on the maximum number of users concurrently logged on.

But then I realized, this is not the only issue with that section. Contrary to the introduction "For purposes of this article the terms used are", most of those terms are not used — in fact, other than "BSD" and "bundled", none of the other terms appear anywhere else in the article. So I'm deleting most of that whole part of the introduction. —scs (talk) 03:33, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

"3rd party" means "Third-party"

Windows 1.0 was the first capable to run on a 3rd party machine (separate from both Microsoft and the human-user), as modern OSs do. gtp (talk) 17:50, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

CP/M 86? Xenix? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:11, 1 September 2026 (UTC)