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It's not an OS within an OS. Browsers aren't fully responsible for abstracting hardware, providing a filesystem, and doing low-level network stuff. I dunno why
by ReactiveJelly 4y ago
It's not an OS within an OS. Browsers aren't fully responsible for abstracting hardware, providing a filesystem, and doing low-level network stuff.
I dunno why people started saying "OS within an OS" just cause Chromium is multi-process.
- ilaksh 4y agoThere are hundreds of APIs in the web platform including USB, gamepad, low-level graphics. Look into how Chromebooks work. Go take a real serious look at what would be involved in implementing a web browser from scratch that would be compatible with Chrome and Firefox. Now that compare that to the Genesis protocol. The web platform is an overlay operating system.