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In 1997, the Justice Department decided that Operating Systems and Web Browsers must remain separate. Since then, the Web Browser has been becoming an Operating System.

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IMHO, for effective computing in the Internet era, we should not be depending on classical OS or application centric but data-centric. Otherwise it will be always a mismatched of abstraction between OS and application. In this case a web OS inside a classical OS, remember webOS anyone [1]?

This should a new data-centric OS similar to TabulaROSA in concept where data is managed and governed by mathematical relationship in this case associative array based D4M [2],[3].

This concept can be implemented initially on Linux, since now Linux support generic non-conventional kernel bypass for memory, storage and compute with io_uring and eBPF, for examples [4].

[1] webOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

[2] TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines:

https://dspace.mit.edu/entities/publication/69c8906b-440f-49...

[3] D4M:

https://d4m.mit.edu/

[4] BPF comes to io_uring at last:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062286/

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