Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Commodity operating systems

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Commodity operating systems
Extremely minimal dicdef that has seen no expansion in a year. Transwiki if Wiktionary wants it, but delete even if they don't. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 18:27, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. Tygar 22:39, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary won't want this. I'd suggest Redirect to Category:Operating systems, were it not for three things.  First, I'm not completely sure that such redirections are technically possible.  Second, the term is not correct as defined.  Third, the only reference to it is in ChucK, written by the same author at the same time, anyway.  What really needs to happen is for ChucK to be modified to explicitly list the operating systems that it runs on (by consulting the external web page), since the term "commodity operating systems" is at best ambiguous. Third, the term is unused.  Delete. Uncle G 23:18, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)
 * 'Keep
 * Above was unsigned - David Gerard 14:01, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to operating system. Useless, but a redirect will discourage recreation - David Gerard 14:01, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV Minghong 10:03, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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