In a certain sense, not the computer operating system is of no use.

从某种意义上说，没有操作系统的计算机是没有用的。

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In fact, the computer operating system has never mattered less than it does today.

实际上，人们对计算机操作系统的重视程度在今天已经跌到了谷底。

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Take Linux, the free computer operating system, or Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

比如免费的计算机操作系统Linux，还有免费的百科全书Wikipedia。

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Only the operating system has controlling of byte zero NULL in the computer's RAM and so if a function ever returns null, aka zero, well, something must have gone wrong because that can't possibly belong to me that memory because by human convention zero is owned by the operating system; not by a program I wrote.

只用操作系统在内存中能够控制,字节0，并且如果一个函数返回，或者说0，好的，可能出错了,因为那可能是不属于我的内存,因为惯例上，0是由操作系统拥有的,而不是由我的程序拥有的。

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But for now assume that GetInt just makes the cursor blink or at least stay steady -- it depends on your computer and operating system and such.

但是现在假设GetInt只是使光标闪烁,或者是不变的--它依赖于你的电脑,和操作系统之类的。

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And if you've ever heard the word driver software that you install in your computer so that your computer, your operating system, Windows or Mac OS, knows how to talk to that piece of hardware, it's that driver software that then empowers the operating systems to send those commands as well, up, the data is laid out on the disk.

并且如果你听说过安装到,电脑中的驱动软件这个词的话，你的操作系统，比如Windows或者是苹果操作系统，通过这个驱动软件我们的电脑，才能知道如何与这个硬件进行通信,正是因为这个驱动软件，操作系统才能根据数据，左右移动的指令来读取磁盘里的数据。

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We cannot invent a stable money any more than we have ever invented a fully stable computer operating system.

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