What is the least successful OS ever sold?

[jorkany]

What is the least successful commercial proprietary desktop OS ever sold?

Not the OS in your lawnmower, not open source, and not free. Also not a "fantasy OS" like AInc. OS5 which was never actually sold (and probably never existed).
There's been quite a few over the years but only one will be The Least Successful! Which is it in your opinion?

[Jope]

What is the least successful commercial proprietary desktop OS ever sold?

Not the OS in your lawnmower, not open source, and not free. Also not a "fantasy OS" like AInc. OS5 which was never actually sold (and probably never existed).
There's been quite a few over the years but only one will be The Least Successful! Which is it in your opinion?

Probably something like CP/M-86..

[Franko]

Windoze... (cos Bill Gates has never made penny off me)...

But I'm just biased and proud of it...

[Pentad]

That is a great question, Franko...


Some guess by me:

1.  Atari's Unix
2.  Amix
3.  CP/M - as mentioned about but that actually had a lot of software and I think it was free up to a certain point.  I know when it came to the IBM PC it was like $1k compared to MS DOS so it didn't sell well then.
4.  Atari 2600 basic  :-)

Cheers!
-P

[jorkany]

That is a great question, Franko...


Some guess by me:

1.  Atari's Unix
2.  Amix
3.  CP/M - as mentioned about but that actually had a lot of software and I think it was
free up to a certain point.  I know when it came to the IBM PC it was like $1k compared to MS DOS so it didn't sell well then.

Well, CP/M was actually extremely popular in the S-100 days, but as Jope pointed out CP/M 86 was not. At least not until it became DR-DOS  

4.  Atari 2600 basic  :-)

LOL! Those interlocking keypad controllers were awesome!
<3 Atari 2600

[Jiffy]

I guess some of the less succesfull 8 bit machines would fall in this category. The OS-market was fully open back then, with every machine having its own OS. Dozens of different computers, most of them were never heard of again, others became icons of the computer industry.

I think the Enterprise would nicely fit in this category. A (very) powerful 8 bit computer combined with a major commercial failure it is a pretty rare find nowadays.

I still remember seeing one of them in a local computer shop back in the days, it being a rare duck even then. Would love to have one of them now, though.

[spihunter]

What about POS for the Amiga?. Was that even a real OS?.

[golem]

POS for Amiga.
Thats one bad acronym for something.

[spihunter]

POS for Amiga.
Thats one bad acronym for something.

Yea, I would think that everytime I saw it. Worst OS name ever!

[Franko]

That is a great question, Franko...

Erm... I'm Franko... :confused:

It was Jorkany who asked the question...

(Unless Jorkany is one of me split personalities that the shrink hasn't told me about yet)...

Oi... Jorkany... are you me or am I you or are we we or are you just you and I'm just me or is this somebody else impersonating the both of us, me, him... oh bugger me brains rattled...

[jorkany]

Erm... I'm Franko... :confused:

It was Jorkany who asked the question...

(Unless Jorkany is one of me split personalities that the shrink hasn't told me about yet)...

Oi... Jorkany... are you me or am I you or are we we or are you just you and I'm just me or is this somebody else impersonating the both of us, me, him... oh bugger me brains rattled...

I thought you were a figment of my imagination, except other people seem to respond to you so I'm rattled too!

[bloodline]

Sinclair QL I think

[the_leander]

Perhaps the A3000 sold with UNIX? Really can't imagine many of those left the warehouse.

OS4 would probably score heavily if for no other reason than there haven't been a huge number of systems produced to run it. Can't imagine that BeOS/Zeta would fair a whole lot better once you discounted the free to download R5 variant.

The last proprietary variants of RISCOS perhaps?

[stefcep2]

Yea, I would think that everytime I saw it. Worst OS name ever!

Ya spelt it wrong.  It was pOS

[XDelusion]

What about POS for the Amiga?. Was that even a real OS?.

I used to own a CD of that. Got it at the Columbus OHIO Amiga show back when Petro was still around. He was there in fact.

Anyhow it was a bit resource intensive on my old 68030 Amiga 2000, but it ran... though the only software that existed for it, was what was on the disk.


There is an ISO of it on EAB.