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Turn your irony detector back on, please?) You know this. I know this. People who find the "full remote access to a system" innovative do not. I think...
Or in terms of "systems" meaning the total system, hardware plus software. They don't distinguish the individual parts, or know which ones can be ....
Oh. I guess they do know that individual parts of the hardware can be replaced-upgraded-changed. It just doesn't occur to them, I guess, that the software is also something that can be replaced.
Exactly. But unlike the disk drive, or the motherboard, or other hardware components, they're not aware .... Actually on some level maybe they are, if they're aware that Windows comes in various versions, all of which run on the same hardware. I guess they don't think about extending to include something that's not Windows.
In some ways this reminds me of the early mainframe days, when the operating system was, if not an integral part of the hardware, at least obtained from the same source, and the o-s for one kind of hardware would not run on another.
Operating systems that would run on more than one architecture .... I'm sure this idea has a much longer history than most people now are aware of, and that it's been discussed here before at length ....
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