1 posted on
01/22/2010 8:39:10 AM PST by
ShadowAce
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2 posted on
01/22/2010 8:39:36 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Now this is the kind of diversity I like!
3 posted on
01/22/2010 8:43:22 AM PST by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: ShadowAce
Heaven help the person who has enough time on their hands (i.e. so little meaningful in their lives) to develop an amiga clone OS for modern hardware...
5 posted on
01/22/2010 8:44:48 AM PST by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
To: ShadowAce
9 posted on
01/22/2010 8:48:42 AM PST by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: ShadowAce
My Amiga 1200 sits next to my - Windows 7 PeeCee, and my iMac. Talk about diversity... Amiga was the IT, well for a couple years anyway then management ran it off the cliff.
Cool list... Haiku is pretty nice, BeOS was a cool OS... (but cool ain’t enough)
10 posted on
01/22/2010 8:48:50 AM PST by
xenob
To: ShadowAce
Linux/BSD/Unix/BeOS people never knew how to design squat from a UI point of view.
11 posted on
01/22/2010 8:48:58 AM PST by
smith288
(Peace at all costs gives you tyranny free of charge)
To: ShadowAce
I use Kolibri on a 512 MB thumb drive, and it works GREAT! It boots in less than 15 seconds on my old Proforma Pentium laptop, and I can do most any basic stuff (web, email) from it without a hiccup.
12 posted on
01/22/2010 8:49:21 AM PST by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: ShadowAce
Gee, I had my own list (off the top of my head):
1. CP/M 2.2, the 8-bit Z80 standard! (CP/M86 for those who are stuck in x86 land) 2. AmigaOS with Intuition interface 3. BeOS-Amiga for the '90s! 4. NeXTstep-Why settle for Apple's kludge when you can have the original? 5. AtariST OS with GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also available for Ventura Publisher on the IBM PC AT) 6. MSX, the 8 bit standard by Microsoft. A stable standard minted in the 80s and adopted by a variety of Japanese computer desktop manufactrurers, and SpectraVideo/Bondwell. 7. OS8. You need a mini-computer like a PDP-8 to run it, but it can generate 4KB virtual machines. You can also repair the core memory and papertape yourself with a little training. 8. So many other proprietary systems with their own plusses: Acorn, DEC Rainbow DOS, Coleco's ADAM with Apple II (almost) compatible BASIC.
15 posted on
01/22/2010 8:52:20 AM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: ShadowAce
Gee, I had my own list (off the top of my head):
1. CP/M 2.2, the 8-bit Z80 standard! (CP/M86 for those who are stuck in x86 land)
2. AmigaOS with Intuition interface
3. BeOS-Amiga for the '90s!
4. NeXTstep-Why settle for Apple's kludge when you can have the original?
5. AtariST OS with GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also available for Ventura Publisher on the IBM PC AT)
6. MSX, the 8 bit standard by Microsoft. A stable standard minted in the 80s and adopted by a variety of Japanese computer desktop manufactrurers, and SpectraVideo/Bondwell.
7. OS8. You need a mini-computer like a PDP-8 to run it, but it can generate 4KB virtual machines. You can also repair the core memory and papertape yourself with a little training.
8. So many other proprietary systems with their own plusses: Acorn, DEC Rainbow DOS, Coleco's ADAM with Apple II (almost) compatible BASIC.
17 posted on
01/22/2010 8:52:52 AM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: ShadowAce
What are these? OSes for losers?
18 posted on
01/22/2010 8:54:52 AM PST by
streetpreacher
(Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
To: ShadowAce
Interesting.
One of those smaller OSs might be perfect for cleaning up a system infected with spyware, malware or a nasty virus if they would package some AV software with it.
19 posted on
01/22/2010 8:55:15 AM PST by
smokingfrog
(You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... www.filipthishouse2010.com)
To: ShadowAce
interesting.
Of course I can’t even understand how to make a Live CD.
lol.
20 posted on
01/22/2010 8:55:46 AM PST by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: ShadowAce
Sadly, BeOS never made the mainstream desktop impact that its supporters so passionately hoped for. I remember BeOS' final days, when they were giving away copies of the OS for free.
I think I still have a copy around here somewhere, if anyone wants it.
To: ShadowAce
Thanks. You have just rescued me from boredom death for another few months.
23 posted on
01/22/2010 9:01:43 AM PST by
blogOps
(don't bite me. i'm newbie)
To: ShadowAce
What is this “floppy disk” of which they speak?
To: Cyber Liberty
Ping to self for later, when I have my Parallels machine....
27 posted on
01/22/2010 9:08:19 AM PST by
Cyber Liberty
(Kill them until they stop.)
To: ShadowAce
I wonder if they can write an OS to emulate my beloved TI-99/4A?
:-)
28 posted on
01/22/2010 9:12:49 AM PST by
DemforBush
(Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
To: ShadowAce
“in Plan 9, even network connections and the user interface can be manipulated via the filesystem.”
Oh, to be able to rm a socket.
30 posted on
01/22/2010 9:20:49 AM PST by
Darth Reardon
(Im running for the US Senate for a simple reason, I want to win a Nobel Peace Prize - Rubio)
To: ShadowAce
I’d heard of 6 of them. I guess that means I’m not too far gone, yet... :)
40 posted on
01/22/2010 10:57:28 AM PST by
SeƱor Zorro
("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
To: ShadowAce
The two that impress me are KolibriOS, because I miss the amazingly tight and fast old-time programs written in assembly, and Minix because of its extremely robust pure microkernel architecture.
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