Amm it will not sound good, but Microsoft have this type of technology. They are using VMWare using Flash/Java (I don't remember exactly) as part of the virtual utils that arrive with Windows Services or something ... So there is nothing new in the idea :)
Ido On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > This is surly interesting news, It seems that the folks at Mozilla are > working on writing a C/C++ to Tamarin compiler (ActionScript VM running > inside Adobe's Flash). > This means implementing the full POSIX calls, including emulation of direct > memory access... > > Now I ask you, is it not getting us just 100000000 steps closer into the > concept of "network OS"? Just think about it, you could theoretically boot > MacOSX, open your browser, browser to http://hamakor.org.il/start (which > would redirect you to http://os.google.com) and bam!! You see Linux happily > booting in your FireFox :) > > Read more about it here : > http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=234365 > > -- > Cheers, > Maxim Veksler > > "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
