windows nt started from os/2? no idea
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
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Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
#22just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful. feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
> just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.
If lessons were learned, either what is good/useful/supportable or what not good/useful/supportable then it's not wasted work
Plan9 is long gone but still provided good ideas that Linux and other use to this day. I'm sure some ideas have been taken from BeOS etc etc
Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
#23This is amazing, but it would be even better if one could zoom in and out, and scroll left to right. On a 1080p display, I could not read some of the names because they were overlapping.
Minor, minor nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Realtime OS. I know little more about it than its name and that it was used on their line of Quattro machines, which I think were kind of minicomputers built around MIPS CPUs. There is another OS by Nixdorf listed, which I know nothing about, is that a different system?
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#24Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD/Free/NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn't even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn't even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
#25Fun to look around the chart. Had forgotten of any link between OS/2 and NT, tho maybe not as clear directly connected, even though similar hires and since IBM and MS were working together you would think the conversation was shared.
Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
#26Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD/Free/NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn't even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn't even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
You can write to the author and make a suggestion, like I did.