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It's not an operating system, because it cannot operate the system (your system being the Computer) :) Sorry for the obvious fact, but that is. For example Li
by malkia 17y ago
It's not an operating system, because it cannot operate the system (your system being the Computer) :) Sorry for the obvious fact, but that is.
For example Linux, Mac OS X, Windows do control your System by taking over all resources, interrupts, almost anything.
At best this is a Browser Operation System (BOS), and even then it's not - because it does not have control over the Browser.
It's an illusion.
- MrRage 17y agoThe system it's operating is a virtual machine. At least that's what I inferred from the description.
- pmiller2 17y ago>It's not an operating system, because it cannot operate the system (your system being the Computer) Be that as it may (I haven't fully checked out the source to this thing, so I can't say if it could "operate the system" or not), there's nothing preventing anybody from writing an operating system in (mostly) Javascript. You'd just have to have a JS interpreter built into your kernel. Now, why you'd want to do that other than for pure hack value, I cannot say. Nonetheless, it can be done. Edit: You could also (theoretically) have a specially microcoded system that can directly run some form of Javascript bytecode, as was done with the old Lisp machines.
- pufuwozu 17y agoNintendo actually started a component based operating system using mostly ECMAScript. It's now being developed by Google. It's also open source: http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/ http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/