Old Operating Systems Never Die

Harry writes "Haiku, an open-source re-creation of legendary 1990s operating system BeOS, was released in alpha form this week. The news made me happy and led me to check in on the status of other once-prominent OSes — CP/M, OS/2, AmigaOS, and more. Remarkably, none of them are truly defunct: In one form or another, they or their descendants are still available, being used by real people to accomplish useful tasks. Has there ever been a major OS that simply went away, period?"

Comments

Re:Why is OS/2 mentioned twice in the article?

[drsmithy]

Then Windows 95 came out a year later, based on largely the same codebase [...]

If you think this, then you're probably not in a position to be making comments.

Re:MacOS 9

[SnapShot]

When you linked to OS-9 I thought you were referring to Plan 9 from Bell Labs; another "I'm not dead yet" OS. I remember reading a glowing Wired (?) article about this in the 90's as the new, big thing...