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 ?
