On: Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (for netbooks)

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"“Chrome is basically a modern operating system,” Mr. Andreessen said."

This is an odd comment to make coming from an ex coder.

[wmf → sfphotoarts]

It's consistent with his statement 15 years ago that "Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers."

(Except this time Chrome has reduced Linux to a well-debugged set of device drivers.)

[sketerpot → wmf]

It's not like they have a whole lot of devices to drive. They know up-front what small set of hardware platforms it will have to support. Handy, I'm sure, if they want things like hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding.

[mahmud → sfphotoarts]

Founder of Netscape. He should know what a browser is, but maybe he knows a bit too much; maybe sees web apps, in that weird out-of-touch way that visionaries tend to "see" things, as a replacement to desktop apps.