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 system, whereby the machine operates...
Don't be so dense it is possible to make a computer that has no OS. What came first the computer or the OS?
No I mentioned GEOS not because it can draw to the screen but because it has one thing that many early OS's had the ability to switch running programs. An OS is the layer between Applications and the hardware not an application and the hardware. If you only have one application running ever you don't need an OS. What you may need is a set of libraries for similar applications but those libraries are not OS's.