Ben Hood wrote:
> > Na. Gameboy should just have "ready to run" software on catridges.
> > No need for an OS on -that- machine.. would be like putting linux
> > on an SNES. :P
>
> That's the same as all consoles; no OS needed (at least as far as
> the user can see)
This brings up an intresting question: If, say, a consule game
comes with an internal hard disk, and is capable of storing
diffrent programs, each as a single "rom" file.. The only thing
you will really need is a "program selector" that will run on start,
and to which the program will return to apon exit. However, unlike
an OS, that program selector would probebly not give any API or other
services except for simply calling the program, and providing the user
with a "program menu". Maybe basic file managment for the user to
delete a ROM or put them in orginized folders. But it would still
not be anything can you call an "OS", same way you cant call the
boot menus that let you choose which OS to boot on PCs an "OS".
So here's the big question:
Whats preventing Microsoft and similiar companies from creating such
a "program selector" and ditch the entire "ancient" thing called OS
all together? The way they act like, it looks like this is one of
their goals for the PC. Or isnt it?
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