Chrome is not an Operating System

   

A number of dilettante tech journalists and bloggers are proclaiming Google's Chrome browser "a new OS!!!!"; by doing this they are displaying an incredible ignorance of what an OS is and does.I realize that we are increasingly a society that has no idea of how things actually work, and that SillyClone Valley is a place where even EE's can't fix their own appliances.

I'm not sure I want to spew out a tutorial here; I am semi-retired from RTOS kernel writing for data acquisition, I know what an OS is.

The Google Chrome browser needs an OS. It needs the hardware initialized and it needs native file system services to place its persistent storage, whether files or as object in the Gears... ... read more >>> abmw.wordpress.com

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