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Originally Posted by Graham
That pretty much sums up ChromeOS.
Graham
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Quite a step in that direction, yes, as is the iPad, and most Android tablets, really.
But I was thinking more along the lines of the computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ask it how to bake a cake, and a holographic Julia Child appears to give you a cooking lesson. THAT will be the computing appliance.
I wonder if LCARS runs on Linux?*
ApK
*Anyone read the "Seafort saga" books by David Feintuch? "Horatio Hornblower in space" stuff. The artificially intellegent computer systems that control the starships run, under the AI layer, an OS apparently reminiscent of MS-DOS. The techs that support them are called "dosmen." SPOILER ALERT: