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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:49:10 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        rwatson@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed
Message-ID:  <4bac66f6.4sYPjsI4heo4SpWm%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003250842520.14365@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <201003231108.45102.jhb@freebsd.org> <hod31p$qlc$1@dough.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003250842520.14365@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ... web browsers [are] basically operating systems at this point ...

Isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?  Not too many browsers have
to deal with process/thread scheduling, or device drivers, or
booting, or file system issues -- they rely on the OS for that
(as does any other application).



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