> Whats preventing Microsoft and similiar companies from creating such
> a "program selector" and ditch the entire "ancient" thing called OS
> all together?
The scheme you propose would be perfectly feasible on a console. Thing is,
if you put a cartridge in a Gameboy the device has an exactly known
configuration. Put a CD-ROM in a PC and the program doesn't know what to
expect. The OS evolved for two reasons - get around this problem by
virtualising the hardware so any machine running that OS has, in effect, a
known configuration; and provide more advanced services to the user and
programmer - multitasking, for instance, can't happen without a controlling
entity such as the OS.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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