> I was just wondering.. can an operating system be a chip?

   Of course.  Many palmtops boot the OS from a ROM.  There were many old
microcomputer operating systems written in ROM; I even ran across a couple of
old MS-DOS computers which had DOS in ROM (they booted very fast, but were a
pain to upgrade).

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