>>> OSes are like cities: built on top of the ruins of older ones...
>>
>> This seems to be the main think that's broken about both Windows and
>> Linux. Too many decades of backwards compatibility.
>
> Coincidentally that's exactly what made them successful in the first
> place (as opposed to e.g. BeOS). You know, avoiding the hen-and-egg
> problem of OS vs. applications.

The same could be said of the ancient x86 platform, which still supports 
running obsolete versions of MS-DOS if you want to.

> Hm... which makes me think: Has there ever been any attempts yet to
> implement a stand-alone JVM as an OS?

Isn't that kind of the original *point* of Java?

Post a reply to this message