Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere?

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 2, 2011 @02:22AM from the all-the-tradeoffs-conspire dept.

First time accepted submitter recrudescence writes "Slashdot readers might remember the Touchbook announcement from Always Innovating stirring up a lot of excitement in the Slashdot community back in 2009 (almost a year before the iPad was announced and essentially killed this off, and way before the Asus Transformer, which is essentially the same idea). The company's new product seems to support Hot multi-OS switching, supposedly with a minimal performance penalty. What seems strange to me is, why haven't other developers jumped in on this already? Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows, yet (disregarding emulation options) they're still limited to booting to a single working system at any time."

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By hot by rossdee · 2011-10-02 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Do you mean a pirated copy?
1. Re:By hot by fahrbot-bot · 2011-10-02 05:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No. They mean sexy - like you'd see on the TV show "Operating Systems Gone Wild". Usually shot in an anonymous server room, the hardware gets a little over-clocked and the OS ends up showing everyone its interfaces and device drivers... Sure there's some sloppy coding and the occasional core dump - usually with systems that can't handle their inputs. Pretty crazy stuff.
  
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  It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Re:This isn't really hot-OS switching. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-02 03:05 · Score: 1, Funny

And amazingly, somehow you are still a virgin.