NuTek Mac comes

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 10:48:47 CDT 2016


On 14 July 2016 at 19:57, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
> Personally - I went through my larval phase under it - I'd cite VMS as
> a counterexample.  Even today I think a lot of OSes would do well to
> learn from it.  (Not that I think it's perfect, of course.  But I do
> think it did some things better than most of what I see today.)


Well, yes, true -- but it wasn't a personal computer OS, and it wasn't
a 1980s OS. It was a 1970s minicomputer OS; the fact that DEC later
turned those minis into personal workstations and grafted a GUI on it
doesn't change its origins. :-)


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