From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <9f0d08d8b1c14d4c276bca2e4986c0b4@9netics.com> References: <9f0d08d8b1c14d4c276bca2e4986c0b4@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] The mother-of-all-gnot? Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:30:09 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ceb281c4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The scary part is how little OS you wind up needing; really just enough of a base to support local document caching (which will be sold as "files on your machine" but are really a cache), and to run AJAX. I'm betting you can embed Opera or Firefox on a relatively small machine with these kinds of constraints, without even needing to re-use GNU/Linux. Paul On 3-Jan-06, at 11:07 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> Don't think of it as a PC, but rather as a terminal to the Google >> server. > > i've seen this before; maybe gnot. >