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Subject: Re: [9fans] web apps
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2005 10:09:29 +0000
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> I wouldn't be surprised if, in some years, all the bloat below the
> browser which we call operating system would become pretty much
> useless... What does the future hold? Possibly the the essential parts
> of consumer OS's will be integrated into the browser which will be
> able to run on bare hardware (think handhelds...).

all you've really done by that is turn the browser into the operating system;
just one that's even less-well designed (let alone implemented) than usual!

all that tells me is that people's expectations from their computer
systems remain depressingly low, and a horde of script kiddies
quoting penguins can shout down dijkstra.