26 March 2009, 09:49 | #1 |
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Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind
of course Amiga makes it into this list of pure nostalgia!
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...&taxonomyId=89 Seeing back the GEOS128 screenshot brought back those good memories... |
26 March 2009, 10:29 | #2 |
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Nice article thanks dirkies.
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26 March 2009, 11:55 | #3 |
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Yeah quite a nice article, and to be honest I've never used most of the others (except dos/win95/macOS).
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26 March 2009, 12:07 | #4 |
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Quite a nice article, thanks for link dirkies.
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26 March 2009, 12:08 | #5 |
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Wow! I just learned quite a bit about the history of OS's there...! 0_o Especially about DOS! I had no idea what a varied and diverse beast it was.
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26 March 2009, 12:16 | #6 |
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Wow I forgot I had GEOS for my old C64, that really was quite workable but also reasonably useless in reality. Great article!
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26 March 2009, 13:23 | #7 |
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What!?
No OS/2!!!! GEOS was just a GUI, not an OS, and sorry, it was FAR from useless, it was very cool. |
26 March 2009, 13:51 | #8 |
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OS/2 was in there.
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26 March 2009, 18:30 | #9 |
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Interesting article - thanks
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26 March 2009, 19:50 | #10 |
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Ah.. CP/M... That brings back memories. And I remember telling a friend to pip a file and I think he thought I was having a small seizure.
As for GEOS.. Having become so accustomed to the 64's "OS" (or more like its disk drives) I found GEOS insufferably slow, both loading and using, when I could just lO"*",8,1 (I also had no need at the time for word processing or any of that).. |
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pip a file xD
I love CP/M! Using it in my C128 was a bit magic... I felt I had some extra power under my hands, unlike with the stupid BASIC interpreter. |
27 March 2009, 03:18 | #12 |
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Nice article
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27 March 2009, 12:57 | #13 |
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nice article... but no RISC OS
How they could put Amiga OS in and miss out ROS is beyond me... well it isn't but it should be there. |
02 April 2009, 23:05 | #15 |
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Agreed. But it's a hit-and-miss article, so...
Also, GeoWorks was light years ahead of Windows 3.11 and OS/2, I guess it wasn't marketed properly (and / or sheep flocked to lesses OSes). It really was well planned, fast and enjoyable. OS/2 was quite stable and worked well, but occupied 20 floppy disks or so, for some strange reason. |
03 April 2009, 09:41 | #16 |
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Interesting article. If I can find a cheap Commodore 1351 mouse for my C128 I will try GEOS 128 V2. I have a boxed set of manuals, added the 2nd 1571 drive, and I have a RAM expansion unit (128K going to upgrade to 512K) and the mouse is the last thing I need.
The only stuff I havn't tried is NEXTstep and BEOS, both of which are interesting OS's but have few apps making them boring. |
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I worked with a guy who had GEOWorks on his computer in the early 90's. We all went to Windows 3.1 by then. LotusWorks was kind of neat when I was in college, I got a copy with my new Packard Bell 286/12 and it worked great (DOS based). |
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