Linux peeps...

[Ouija]

Yeah there isn't a lot out there that isn't one or the other. Off the top of my head: VMS, Haiku, and AmigaOS and obviously plenty of RTOS type things like ThreadX, but certainly nothing major.

Ahhhhhh! AmigaOS (nostalgia trip coming on). Now that thing multi-tasked better than current Windows or Unix variants running on modern hardware. And sharing libraries in memory certainly kept the ram overheads down (but did mean if one program crashed it tended to take down any other programs sharing the same libraries). Must of spent 15 years upgrading mine before it finally got boxed up and i bowed to the inevitable and bought a PC.

[digitalscream]

Yeah there isn't a lot out there that isn't one or the other. Off the top of my head: VMS, Haiku, and AmigaOS and obviously plenty of RTOS type things like ThreadX, but certainly nothing major.

Oi, don't forget my personal favourite, RiscOS. Which, really, is where Microsoft nicked the Win95 interface from (despite what the Mac boys will tell you).

[Myranda_Rose]

Ahhhhhh! AmigaOS (nostalgia trip coming on). Now that thing multi-tasked better than current Windows or Unix variants running on modern hardware. And sharing libraries in memory certainly kept the ram overheads down (but did mean if one program crashed it tended to take down any other programs sharing the same libraries). Must of spent 15 years upgrading mine before it finally got boxed up and i bowed to the inevitable and bought a PC.

I liked AmigaOS...

I had an A500 as my second computer, it was like an exocet missile compared to my first computer... a Spectrum Sinclaire ZX128k - with built in tape drive!

Always wanted one of the uber Amigas but I got a PC instead and so glad that I didn't spend (or get my parents to spend given my age and income) a fortune on the Amiga only for the OS to vanish into the realms of nostalgia and back pages of MicroMart

[monquixote]

AmigaOS still exists, but it's very niche.

Ars did a nice 7 part feature on it: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/...istory-part-7/

[Myranda_Rose]

AmigaOS still exists, but it's very niche.

Ars did a nice 5 part feature on it: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/...-amiga-part-1/

I know I read about it whenever I pick up Micro Mart, but it's sufficiently niche thing that for the most part it's a jelly*...


* you really needed to see a specific episode of QI to get that reference... I could expand upon it, but wont!

[Ouija]

I liked AmigaOS...

Always wanted one of the uber Amigas but I got a PC instead and so glad that I didn't spend (or get my parents to spend given my age and income) a fortune on the Amiga only for the OS to vanish into the realms of nostalgia and back pages of MicroMart

I had (still have) a uber Amiga. An old 1200 in a tower case with a graphics card and 66mhz 68060 processor and a humungous 32mb of FAST ram, lol. Seems so outdated to the multi-gigabyte machines of today, but the Amiga could boot up into a full GUI desktop in less than 256K of ram so 32mb was huge. Getting back to the Linux theme i even had a version of BSD running on it (and a PC emulator that actually ran PC software faster than a real PC). Ahhhhh! Nostalgia.

[Myranda_Rose]

I had (still have) a uber Amiga. An old 1200 in a tower case with a graphics card and 66mhz 68060 processor and a humungous 32mb of FAST ram, lol. Seems so outdated to the multi-gigabyte machines of today, but the Amiga could boot up into a full GUI desktop in less than 256K of ram so 32mb was huge. Getting back to the Linux theme i even had a version of BSD running on it (and a PC emulator that actually ran PC software faster than a real PC). Ahhhhh! Nostalgia.

Aaaaaaand! Lemmings!