Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
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The C64 was a machine without an OS, very common for 8bit microcomputers. It could only run one application at a time. But there where competitors that did have an OS like the Mac. The Mac could kinda run more than one program at a time (ok you could do the same with the C64 but cut n paste and reboot and load "*",8,1 would be a pain). So they introduced GEOS to the C64 and lo and behold it could run more than one app at a time.
Now imagine that you have a souped up C64 that runs google chrome. Only one application at a time. But chrome can run applications inside of itself. So by applying chrome to your souped up C64 you have a Operating System. Anyone who doesn't understand how you can get a computer to run a single application without an OS is thick. Sure that does not mean chrome is an OS, but it does mean that it can be one.