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Old 12-20-2013, 02:27 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
That pretty much sums up ChromeOS.

Graham
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:
Spoiler:
In one book, the AI on a ship goes insane because a dosman messed up an end-of-file marker in a config text file....

Last edited by ApK; 12-20-2013 at 03:54 PM. Reason: It might indeed be useful while commuting, but that's not what I meant to type....
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