Five operating systems that time forgot

“While you’re cursing the slow boot times of your modern PC or
wondering why you can’t have 50 applications open at once without
the system taking a hit, cast your mind back to the operating
systems of old.

“Here are five operating systems we fondly remember. Actually,
that’s a lie. One of them had us pointing with derision when we
first saw it, and even the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia
can’t wipe that memory.

“OS/2 (1987)

“Can there ever have been a more ignominious fall from grace?
OS/2 was the love child of Microsoft and IBM, the two brightest
stars in the PC pantheon. It had a task switcher, a graphical
interface, the HPFS filing system, and lots of other cool stuff.
And yet it was utterly destroyed in the market place by ugly,
clunky, crashy Windows three point oh.”

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