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How is that any different to adding a calculator or word processing app in with your os?

The OS bootstraps the hardware and allows the software to run. If your software is contained in the same blob then great, but it still needs the bootstrapping code first.

The bootstrapping/hardware management portion on its own would be considered an OS but the LLM code would not, I think thats the main distinction here.



It seems that by that definition the BIOS would be the only thing that could be called an operating system, the bootloader is just a piece of software akin to a calculator or word processing app, and Linux, Windows, and MacOS some data file that you're loading, like an mp3.


Fair point, I reduced it a bit far to bootloader only there, the os also needs to manage and allocate resources dynamically to the other software too.




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