Am 02.06.2011 09:56, schrieb Invisible:
>>>> 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.

Egg-sactly.

>> 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?

Not sure; the way it is /implemented/, the JVM seems to always be an 
intermediate layer on top of some host OS. It might have gained enough 
momentum by now though that a dedicated Java OS might be successful.

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