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From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@[email protected] to comp.misc on Tue Jun 24 03:13:09 2025

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They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS, back in the
day, but not any more.

This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

<https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>
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From candycanearter07@[email protected] to comp.misc on Wed Jun 25 00:30:03 2025

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote at 03:13 this Tuesday (GMT):

They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS, back in the
day, but not any more.

This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

<https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>

TBH Emacs is probably at that point by now.
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From Ivan Shmakov@[email protected] to comp.misc on Wed Jun 25 05:15:02 2025

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On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS,
back in the day, but not any more.

This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

<https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>

Huh. So, like JSLinux?

http://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=192
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