Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-linux-faq--6256c7-To confuse matters, some peopl/en

To confuse matters, some people use the term &ldquo;operating system&rdquo; to mean &ldquo;kernel&rdquo;. Both uses of the term go back many years. The use of &ldquo;operating system&rdquo; to mean &ldquo;kernel&rdquo; is found in a number of textbooks on system design, going back to the 80s. At the same time, in the 80s, the &ldquo;Unix operating system&rdquo; was understood to include all the system programs, and Berkeley's version of Unix included even games. Since we intended GNU to be a Unix-like operating system, we use the term &ldquo;operating system&rdquo; in the same way.