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Subject: Re: Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language
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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ... web browsers [are] basically operating systems at this point ...

Isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?  Not too many browsers have
to deal with process/thread scheduling, or device drivers, or
booting, or file system issues -- they rely on the OS for that
(as does any other application).