Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
Google 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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RE: Anyone remember GEOS?
by GavHSS on Tue 9th Sep 2008 12:05 UTC in reply to "Anyone remember GEOS?"
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2008-03-25

The C64 was a machine without an OS, very common for 8bit microcomputers. It could only run one application at a time.


I'm not familiar with the C64, but did every application talk directly to all the hardware it used? If so, then there would be a lot of redundancy between applications, since they would be doing the same things. If not, then there was an OS,even if it wasn't visible to the end user...

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