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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Certainly the Commodor and I believe the TRS-80 had an OS. It was in ROM so the boot time was almost zero. I still have my Pet purchased in 1977. It is PC's that have an OS you have to load each time you turn it on. We've gone backwards.
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Oh, dear. I can't even wrap my brain around the sort of furor that would result if MacroHard announced that they were working with Intel to develop a processor that had Windows
built into it! 
I can see perhaps selling OS's on Rom Chips that were inserted into slots on the Motherboard, but even that would be hideously complicated compared to the approach we have currently.
I see where you're coming from viewing it as a step backwards, but I'm afraid I just don't agree that it is.
I think we're better off with the OS approach we have now.
