[SGVLUG] Google's new OS move

[John E. Kreznar]

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In a posting purporting to be from Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> but
lacking a digital signature, it is written:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Emerson, Tom
> (*IC)<Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>>> [So, where does Chrome come in?  I thought Chrome was the
>>> browser, and Android the Linux-based operating system.  --jek]

>> What's so unusual about that?  For Years, Microsoft has made the
>> claim that their graphically-oriented "shell" called "Windows" is
>> an operating system, so why not a browser as the OS?

> Compare with the CrunchPad ...  which runs the browser and not much
> else.

> I think the intent of the CrunchPad is to be *only* a web browser
> rather than a general purpose computer.

> Or compare with a Kindle... which is *only* a pdf reader, not a
> general purpose computer.

> Does that help?

Well, I suppose that bash and emacs and latex and so on run under
Android.  Do these and the other gazillion programs that we use every
day run under Chrome?

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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