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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: jorkany on June 02, 2011, 06:35:02 PM
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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?
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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..
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Windoze... :) (cos Bill Gates has never made penny off me)... :)
But I'm just biased and proud of it... :)
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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
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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 :D
4. Atari 2600 basic :-)
LOL! Those interlocking keypad controllers were awesome!
<3 Atari 2600
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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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_%28computer%29) 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.
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What about POS for the Amiga?. Was that even a real OS?.
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POS for Amiga.
Thats one bad acronym for something.
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POS for Amiga.
Thats one bad acronym for something.
Yea, I would think that everytime I saw it. Worst OS name ever!
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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...
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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!
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Sinclair QL I think :)
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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?
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Yea, I would think that everytime I saw it. Worst OS name ever!
Ya spelt it wrong. It was pOS
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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.
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How successful was C64's GEOS? Did people purchase this separately in numbers or was it mainly just a pack-in for the C64c that most of us never used back in the day? :lol:
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I bought Geos for the C64. I liked it. I do not know how well it went. I think it was fairly popular. http://www.bombjack.org/commodore could show how popular it was by looking at how many magazines had content for it.
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I bought Geos for the C64. I liked it. I do not know how well it went. I think it was fairly popular. http://www.bombjack.org/commodore could show how popular it was by looking at how many magazines had content for it.
I used Geos and Jane on my C128 for a good couple of years before I got my first Amiga.
There are probably lots of OS that were unsuccessful that we will never know of (ipso facto)
I'd have to say MSDOS 4 which I think was more damned than Windows ME as an OS.
MS DOS 4 was so buggy on many machines it was un-usable. I remember people went back to DOS 3.3 in droves.
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If any of us has heard of it, then it is not obscure enough to be the least successful OS.
I would guess maybe heathkit's HDOS since users had to build their computers and few could afford the disk system, if not then you would have to go back to the proprietary OS's of the mid '70s to early '80s.
How about Forth which was meant to be an operating system, wasn't it?
How successful was TRIPOS before it was used as the basis for Amigaos?
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How about OS-9 for the Coco 3?
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How about OS-9 for the Coco 3?
OS/9 is still used in a few commercial applications; I'd wager it has a larger installed userbase than OS4.
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GEOS user here - even bought a mouse for my c64 to use it "better". Loved GEOS.
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Man, I came here to say pOS and someone beat me to it.
I did a little searching and found out that it wasn't a full OS. What we saw ran on top of AOS so that pre-release was more of a Workbench replacement.
They apparently went on to finish and sell it to industrial/embedded customers, so it may have a larger installed base than we thought.
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How about Forth which was meant to be an operating system, wasn't it?
Well, Forth isn't really a single thing, but some implementations are self-contained. Not very useful as an OS for the average desktop computer user, but it had (and still has) its applications.
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I used Geos and Jane on my C128 for a good couple of years before I got my first Amiga.
Same here - GEOS on my c128 - even made some little programs for it myself. Great little OS
Tom UK
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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?
Hi,
I would venture to say Apricot DOS, Can't even imagine a lot of these machines being sold.
smerf
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How about OS-9 for the Coco 3?
WHAT? Not only was that reasonably successful, but there is still a open source version of it available for download called NitrOS.
I don't think you want to use an OS that sold tens of thousands of copies as an example of an unsuccessful OS.
By the way, I can point to groups that are still using and developing under this.
Also, come to think of it, just a couple months ago I saw an announcement that Radisys (which bought OS9 from Microware) was releasing an update for 68K version for OS9.
Further OS9 is still available for many platforms. The X86 version is very popular in the process control market.
You sir, have no clue what you are talking about.
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I have thought, and always will think, that Windows ME is the worst, nay atrocious, OS I have ever had the misfortune to use. It was buggy, slow, leaked memory, blue-screened, died more times than super meat boy and ate resources like it was going out of fashion.
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I have thought, and always will think, that Windows ME is the worst, nay atrocious, OS I have ever had the misfortune to use. It was buggy, slow, leaked memory, blue-screened, died more times than super meat boy and ate resources like it was going out of fashion.
Personally, I had no more problems with Me then I did with 98. Most of the problems you list are present in both OS'.
Me had more device drivers on the install CD and virtually all this CD's content was loaded on to the computer's hard drive. That meant that when you installed new hardware you didn't have to put the OS CD into your computer.
With all the vitriolic comments, you'd think ME was a new operating system. In reality it was little more than a slightly enhanced 98.
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@CritAnime:
Ha, so it was just like every other version of Windoze then ;-)
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I was a 98 user then skipped ME and went to XP for my home desktop. We had ME on the machines at college and thats what we found all the issues on it. But your right 98 did suffer with these things. We just found that ME was producing the errors on a more regular basis. In the end we reverted the test machines back to 98 then to 2000 when it became available.
@Minuous
Lol lets not go there. We may open this thread upto a whole world of trouble :rofl:
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Mac OS 7.1.1 Pro
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Has anyone suggested MicroSoft Bob?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
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What about POS for the Amiga?. Was that even a real OS?.
pOS is very real. It even works on Pegasos ;)
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Probably not the least successful, but Id have to nominate Zeta for biggest flop. It was getting quite a bit of attention prior to launch, and appeared to be an attempt to "re-launch" BeOS, but fizzled out very quickly after release.
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Would Norton Desktop be considered a shall or OS? I think it's more likely a shell but I will submit it on here to see what people think.