[ale] question of os

[Charles Shapiro]

Ooh, and lest we forget, there's a whole crowd of non-unix x86 OSs.
I'm fond of menuetOS (http://www.menuetos.org/), probably the world's
smallest windowing OS, but it's very dependent on the right display
hardware. There's also OS/2 (I'm currently getting divorced from this.
It's . . . not amicable.), CP/M (ancestor of MS-DOS:
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/), MS-DOS (still used in a startling
number of embedded projects), etc and so forth. A fun page for some of
this is http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html.



-- CHS


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 18:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I think he's thinking of Hurd.  
> 
> The GNU project (Richard Stallman a.k.a. "RMS") was supposed to be a
> complete Unix work-alike but had no OS kernel.  What we know as "Linux"
> is sometimes (at least in RMS' presence :-) ) referred to as the
> GNU/Linux operating system.  It was a matter of two independent
> undertakings being brought together at just the right time.  
> 
> Stephen, one could make one's life's work out of dealing with different
> OSses.  For Intel CPUs alone, you already know of Linux and Windows but
> there has been the BSDs (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD) that are current now,
> BeOS, Novell NetWare, Banyan VINES (actually based on an earlier UNIX),
> various Unix flavors (SCO, Interactive, AT&T), and who knows what else. 
> I think that the Hurd kernel is finally available; I dunno about a
> working distro of it.
> 
> There have been many Unix variants, including those from IBM (AIX), Cray
> (UNICOS), Sun (Solaris), SGI (IRIX), HP (HP-UX), and DEC (now known as
> Tru64 Unix).
> 
> For a total of about seven years, I worked with DEC's (now Compaq's) VMS
> (now known as OpenVMS); even by Linux standards, it was/is a very
> capable OS whose native file system is said to be far more sophisticated
> than Linux' and most (if not all) Unices.  I still miss its batch queue
> mechanism.  VMS is still with us, but it's destined to die as its
> platforms (VAX and Alpha) die.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 17:30, Michael Still wrote:
> > Could it be GNU Hurd?
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Turner [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:21 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] question of os
> > 
> > 
> > hey i was reading a magazine forget which one and it had a dude in it that
> > was supposedly behind the gnu movement, supposedly he had a cool os like
> > linux designed but didnt have a kernel in time, linux just came out and
> > seemed to 'borrow' his os since they didnt have an os,..... anyone know
> > the name of it maybe? i realize this isnt much info, i dunno if it was bsd
> > or what. whats you guys opinions on other os's? i mean the only os's ive
> > touched is linux and windows, personally i LOVE linux but think i dont
> > know enough about it, and i was wondering if someone preferres other os's
> > or thinks there are cooler ones just as efficient or better than linux? i
> > doubt anythink could be better than open source but hey ya never know :-p
> > 
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