Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:21, Tony Aiuto via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Which is a Unix. Derived from Mac OS X, which is an Open Group certified UNIX?. A Linux distro. QNX as in Blackberry 10? A Unix. Jolla Sailfish? Meego? Tizen? Samsung Bada? Huawei Harmony OS? All Linux. Sure, yes. Still Unices underneath, though. Linux apps running under Linux: more proof that Linux is Linux, ISTM. WINE is pretty good these days. I use it for several things. There are basically 2 OS families left for general-purpose computing: Windows NT and UNIX. DOS is dead. Netware is dead. OS/2 is very very nearly dead. BeOS is dead; Haiku is alive and developing but very niche. RISC OS is alive but very niche. AmigaOS is not well at all and even including MorphOS and AROS it's as niche as RISC OS or more so. Symbian is dead. NewtonOS is dead. Classic MacOS is dead. CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead although I think Toshiba just about supports 4680 and 4690. VMware was originally based around Linux although the company tried hard to cover that up. Xen is alive and well but it's not a GP OS, I'd say. I'm struggling to think of anything else. There are things but they're even more niche than say Haiku. Redox OS? Genode? HelenOS? -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053