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w4der • today at 9:34 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

If you'd never heard of WebOS (which sounds a bit like "eggs" in spanish), the story of how it was developed by Palm, then killed by HP and re-released as a TV OS after being acquired by LG is fascinating. It could do real multitasking on a tablet in 2010, years before either iPads or Android tablets could.


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delta_p_delta_x • today at 11:06 AM

WebOS and Android are broadly the same thing: custom user-mode applications and layers on top of a Linux kernel.

allarm • today at 10:47 AM

Gosh I miss my Zire 72.