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What is the least successful OS ever sold?
« on: June 02, 2011, 06:35:02 PM »
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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Re: What is the least successful OS ever sold?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 07:36:35 PM »
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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

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4.  Atari 2600 basic  :-)

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

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Re: What is the least successful OS ever sold?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 09:11:35 PM »
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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!