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Re: Favourite vintage OS
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:30 am
by CrypticalCode0
Solar wrote:As for "being alive"... as much as I would love to believe different, an OS with a potential hardware target base that can be expressed in a four-digit number is not "alive" in my book. Amiga was always a hardy community, but you don't even have to compare the situation today with the late 80's / early 90's heydays to realize that Amiga is dead. They just didn't admit as much yet.
To be honest Hardware wise i find the Classic Amiga one of the best documented platforms upto and including ECS.
Re: Favourite vintage OS
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:33 am
by turdus
1st VMS. Period.
2nd AmigaOS
Re: Favourite vintage OS
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:43 pm
by GAT
QNX! Just a damn good OS, UNIX-ish, GUI (but not default, choice), just plain stable.
Re: Favourite vintage OS
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:59 pm
by 500mhz
QNX is vintage OS ??? )))
Re: Favourite vintage OS
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:10 pm
by Brynet-Inc
500mhz wrote:QNX is vintage OS ??? )))
Yes.. QNX2 ran on the Unisys ICON computers here in Canada, in the 80's.
In the same respect, BSD is also vintage, but still maintained.. so my favourite vintage OS would be BSD, and it's non-vintage descendent OpenBSD.
I played with a lot of UNIX-like systems in the 90's, various commercial systems, etc. I really liked the overall design when I first encountered it. Still do.
Of course, there were the dark ages when I was briefly running DOS. But I hold no fond memories.