I have just started reading a book on Unix and came across a sentence which says:
Fig. shows the 20,000 foot view of the organization of the GNU/Linux Operating System.
What is meant by the 20,000 foot view? Is it a technical term? Or is it just English?
Answer
It's an expression that means to see a thing in its entirety, as a whole. To assess the OS not by looking at how individual parts work, but "how the parts work together and as a whole." It's to see things in a broad view.
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