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[2]: Anyone remember GEOS?
by RIchard James13 on Tue 9th Sep 2008 12:28 UTC in reply to "RE: Anyone remember GEOS?"
RIchard James13
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2007-10-26

There is a Kernal in the C64 but it is more like a library than an OS.

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RE[3]: Anyone remember GEOS?
by Kroc on Wed 10th Sep 2008 08:36 in reply to "RE[2]: Anyone remember GEOS?"
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2005-11-10

Why is this modded down? It's very true. The KERNAL had one large jump table into it, and very little of the code was actually hardware I/O (mostly memory-mapped). Almost all the KERNAL could be switched out or shadowed in RAM, allowing you to modify or remove the KERNAL.

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