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What have you experimented with?
Favourites?
>>51764707
inb4 TempleOS
>>51764707
forgot to add that the image is of a test bench for the Nintendo ES operating system
SkyOS- Attempt to recreate windows
MenuetOS- Server is that ran off a floppy
Samantha- Clingy talking OS that you can fuck
My favorite OS I've used was QNX back when it was free.
>>51764770
>Her Reference
>>51764792
>>51764770
I want Linux to talk to me in Stallman's voice while I masturbate.
>>51764707
> that keyboard
I don't drive space ships.
I just installed this so called ubanto
>>51764770
MenuetOS is also the only OS written exclusively in assembly
>>51765537
if you back a few decades pretty much every OS was written entirely in assembly
i think the first unix was written in assembly before C existed
has anyone hear heard of linux?
I've got an SGI Octane II running Irix 6.5.26. It runs surprisingly well for an old machine. The GUI is very responsive.
>>51765646
O2 reporting in: R10000 300-ish mhz, 1GB or RAM, with the AV module. I need to get a new drive for it, before this one dies.... The only reason I don't use it constantly is the fear of that old scsi drive dying.
Mackintosh OS X El Capitan.
i was dumb enough to buy a bebox when they first came out AMA
>>51764770
I got a QNX image for free from my school. It's neat.
>>51766430
Nice. I've been meaning to track down a new drive for mine. I also need to get around to setting up an NFS share for it.
Got any interesting software? I've got old versions of Photoshop and Maya.
>>51764707
I've played around with Haiku, Plan 9, KolibriOS, MUSIC/SP, MVS, and OS/400 to a slight extent. I run Solaris on my web/file server but I don't consider UNIX that obscure.
>>51766430
Most collectors run newer SCA drives in their DDs that are cheap and plentiful, stock up while companies are still throwing them out by the boat load.
I really want an O2 though. All I have is an Indy with a really fucked up IRIX 6.2 install and a dead 250 MHz Octane that I have no idea how to troubleshoot or fix. Kill me.
>>51766617
The misaligned optical drive and missing floppy drive is giving me the autism.
>>51766701
Where did you find them? It seems Nekochan is the only place that has them and I don't really want to suck dick on the forums for it. ;_;
>>51766720
>Where did you find them?
I don't remember where I got Photoshop, but I think it was a torrent. Maya (v 4.0) came with the machine. It came from some architectural firm, and there was a 3d model of a Walmart still on there. There was some other AliasWavefront (now Autodesk) software on there too, like I think a paint program.
I haven't been around Nekochan for a while but they did seem to be the main place for Irix software.
>>51766866
Maybe I'll have to go poking around and see if there's still any up, I'm thinking of putting up an IRIX software archive.
>>51764707
So far, my favorite obscure OS is Hikarunix, basically Linux for people that want to play Go all the time. I've also played with Linux for the Nintendo DS, GBA and a little MenuetOS.
>>51764725
More info? When was it from and what was it gonna be?
>>51764770
>My favorite OS I've used was QNX back when it was free.
first anon other than me to know of based QNX
>>51764770
>MenuetOS
>GUI, TCP/IP stack and windows transparency on 1.44mb
>meanwhile windows is 20gb+
Can anyone post similar shit?
>RollerCoaster Tycoon released in 1999
>written entirely in x86 assembly
>basically everything about carmack
>>51769184
Not him but I've seen it mentioned here and there
>tfw use it daily on my phone
>>51766866
People left amazing things on these machines.
Mine came from Airbus. It had CATIA installed and drawings of the A320
>>51769220
>>51766866
I bought an eMac G4 that came from some government agency and the only thing installed on it was THPS2
>>51764707
I installed GNU/ubuntu but it was strange - there was no start button and no way to acces the metro. I couldn't install anything, and i had no way to setup a minecraft server.exe :(
>>51766701
>>51766720
Nothing non-stock. The install was beyond fucked when I got it. I did check for interesting stuff before I wiped it, but didn't find any. Got a full set of burned irix CDs + overlays, and did a fresh install way back when.
Ok, now I'm wondering where the hell those discs are....
I would love to know where to get fun software for it.
>>51769212
Maybe by me. I used to have a dedicated qnx box in undergrad. Sucked for web browsing through. It would chew through the memory and need a reboot after a week, of I browsed on it. Was still so much fun though!
Anyone used Sailfish OS?
I plan to use it once my new phone arrives.
BeOS back in the day.
I also run NetBSD on a SH4 machine I have.
Screams along. Compiling git only took 8+ hours.
Luckily Perl was availiable as a binary.
Using Gnu+Linux currently.
Would like Plan9 to be feasible!
>>51771082
I'm running an older version on my jolla because I don't want to sign the EULA
One of these days I'll put it on my n5
>>51771144
>I don't want to sign the EULA
Why not?
What's in there?
>>51765646
>>51766430
>>51766617
Back in the late 90s early 00s, did any major studios use these machines? Are they still in use today or has the typical desktop taken over?
>>51771158
I can't see a reason to have a privacy policy on what is supposed to be free software.
I should just downoad the source and compile it myself, but I'm not that pressured to update it. Not my main phone after all.
>>51764707
- Plan9 (9front port)
- LoveShack OS
- Haiku
- Phantom OS
- GNU/Turd
- MenuetOS
- TempleOS
- OS/2
I love experimental and research OS's so much that I wrote my term paper on the subject of research OS's.
>>51771188
I thought it was part open source and part proprietary?
I think it's problematic to make open source drivers for all hardware components found in a phone.
I'm using Linux. It's an experimental UNIX clone made by this crazy guy in Sweden. The kicker - dude gives it away for free, the whole OS is open source. Check it out if you hadn't heard of it
is OS9 as shit as people say?
If there's something to see there, I'm going to get a powermac of some kind and install it
>>51771237
Never head of it.
Sounds like a weak imitation of GNU/Linux.
>>51764851
>>51771254
Logical evolution of finder. By then the extensions directory had gotten ridiculous in real world usage, and the tcp/IP stack hadn't improved at all since the late 7s.
>>51769166
https://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/
>>51771293
this shit happens literally every day
>>51764851
I want sexy opensource Siri Cortana.
>>51772618
Janet is the closest?
>>51771212
>- Phantom OS
Is there a download out? I know its the OS that's written in Java or C# or something but I didn't think there was a release
>>51773102
Yup, it's not an ISO, but you can run the image on a preconfigured VM.
It's in there somewhere: https://code.google.com/p/phantomuserland/
Don't expect it to be anywhere near complete, the devs aren't working on it anymore apparently.
I speculate that they're being funded by the Russian govt to do R&D for another OS project.
>>51773102
if you want an OS written in java just use Inferno. It's written in Limbo (utilizing the dis virtual machine) and bell labs certified for awesomeness ;)
>>51769211
>meanwhile windows is 20gb+
mfw in 2004 forums I'd raise that as a big problem after XP came out for taking 4gb of HDD
> anon quit being a poorfag storage is cheap nowadays
fast forward to now tfw collective butthurt over having less than 16GB of space left on a 32gb surface
>>51764707
Does pre-Oracle Solaris (then SunOS) count?
Anyone here ever used AIX?
>>51766720
>MVS
Did you use the turnkey or do the whole bootstrapping yourself?
>>51771254
Its main strength is that it was light and zippy (though that could change if you installed a zillion extensions and control panels). That, and programs could just eat up as much memory as they pleased since the OS wouldn't stop them.
For quite some time after OS X was released (up until 10.2 or 10.3 even) I'd reboot my iMac G3 into OS 9 whenever I wanted to run an intense game or boot up a Windows VM in Virtual PC (back when it was an x86 emulator for PPC Macs). In the case of Virtual PC I'd I'd boot OS 9 up with a minimal extension set and even quit the FInder so VPC could suck up as much resources as possible and run a tiny bit faster.
It was also ridiculously moddable. The number of Kaleidoscope schemes and Appearance Manager themes that existed for Classic Mac OS seriously dwarf the number of themes for other platforms (msstyle, GTK+, etc), and they had near total control over the UI, more than any modern theme system - see pic for a few examples...
>>51766617
> bebox
Interesting. My ex brother in law worked for Be. I remember seeing the super cool CPU lights on his Bebox. But I could swear it looked a lot like the Amiga 2000 case, i.e. not a tower, beige, and with four or so small, discrete LEDs.
I still have the BeOS messenger bag. He gave it to my sister, she passed it on to me. Standard Timbuktu with a slick BeOS logo on it.
>>51774748
(Cont)
Extensions and control panels could change damn near any part of the system without restriction, which made for some really neat mods. I remember one in particular that added physics to dragged items (you could "throw" them across the screen) and another that just wholesale replaced the text rendering system to enable subpixel antialiasing, among hundreds of others.
On top of all of that, the resource forks of most system files and third-party applications could be edited by an Apple-provided editor (ResEdit) making it dead simple to change any number of elements about the system and third-party apps. In fact, there were whole sites dedicated to this very practice, such as:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010301155440/http://www.resexcellence.com/
It was hilariously insecure but a huge fun to hack on and customize. It makes me sad that no desktop OS will likely ever approach that level of *easy* customization again - not even Linux.
>>51774748
Back when ricing was a cool thing.
Everything went to shit since muhhh flat muhh minimalism
Athene OS
>>51769184
Tfw I tried to get a qnx license so I could rice it and they personally emailed me and denied my request
>>51775036
I tried to get a license too, got denied. Then tried to apply with a different email for a MIPS evaluation image and found out they don't support MIPS anymore
>>51769184
Oh I miss this OS so much.
icons were superb.
the UI was also superb.
stability excellent.
has an oiffice suite
has a based media player that reads so many formats
Is fast.
a good browser that does not lag even on a shit Pentium2
now i know it still runs in my blackberry but it's still something that should have made it on the desktop. it's even the first OS I considered purchasing legally.
wonder if i could install it on some vintage ThinkPad
i fucking hate all you niggers
when are you going to realize your autismOS is a piece of crap
>>51764914
thats a well know window XP virus uninstall is immdeiatley
>>51766866
you should track down that walmart in real life and use the 3d map of walmart to plan a heist and then make a movie out of it
>>51771548
Exactly.
>>51775334
OpenBSD is great though
>>51771293
For reals submit this
>>51774689
Just the turnkey because I'm a pleb, I'm thinking of setting up a dedicated system for it though so I can explore it further.
>>51771183
Dunno about BeOS systems, but there's definitely plenty of SGI hardware still in service mostly in medical, scientific and industrial setups as controllers and data collectors.
>>51769220
>tfw your SGI shitboxes didn't have any good shit on them
My Indy came from Intel where it was used as a controller for a wafer imaging system, my Indigo2 from a mine where it was used for 3D mapping and planning, but it was all run from probably an Onyx or some other big remote system.
>>51771183
No one used BeOS, but I heard it was good.
>>51776247
Hercules and retro-computing should get more love on /g/.
Forget installing Gentoo, try installing MVS from dist under VM/370.
>>51764722
BeOS. Top that.
anyone got anything that isn't Windows, Linux or OS X that will allow me to connect to the Internet using a Broadcom AC Wifi card?
None of the BSDs aside from OS X has drivers for it.
>>51771212
I would love to read your paper
>>51776375
I only used it for a little while in the early 2000s after Be, Inc. had release BeOS 5 PE. It ran noticeably faster on a 750Mhz PIII Dimension 4100 tower (pic) than Win2K did. It was super snappy and had a feeling of cleanness and simplicity that Windows has never had; I'd liken more to older versions of Mac OS than I would to any other legacy OS.
>>51776404
It's a pretty cool learning experience. Plus I've always wanted a real mainframe to begin with. Time sharing systems give me a hard-on.
>>51776634
I'm trying to build a system to run PE on right now, if I can ever source a decent dual-socket board.
>>51776685
I honestly think MVS is an OS model the modern the computing industry should be tring to replicate, after some updating, of course.
>>51776685
>I'm trying to build a system to run PE on right now, if I can ever source a decent dual-socket board.
Good luck. Outside of PowerMacs, in the late 90s-early 2000s mass-produced dual socket boards were pretty rare. It's too bad that PE can't run on newer PPC machines because dual processor PowerMac G4s are abundant and cheap.
>>51776634
You know, the BeOS file system was so innovative that the guy who created it wrote a filesystem book used in college courses?
>>51776634
are you me
i had the same model
i had win2k on it
even tried out BeOS at one point
It was glorious but I didn't know what to do with it or how to make the internet work.
>>51776816
Were you using dialup at that point? I had cable internet at that point and the ethernet worked OOB with BeOS, so for me the internet just werked. I mainly spent time sifting through BeBits downloading neat screensavers and shit.
>>51775319
that looks pretty rad
>>51776754
It looks pretty damn fascinating, now you're making me want to load it up again. I didn't get very far in last time I tried it out since I kept getting distracted by other projects.
>>51776771
Right now I'm looking at using a dual Slot 1 board if I can find an I/O shield and a good matched pair of Pentium II 400/450s for it, and maybe a good Matrox card too.
>>51774663
>Anyone here ever used AIX?
All the time. I'm not a big fan for my personal use, but for a server that needs to be there 24/7, it's unbeatable.
>>51774867
>I remember one in particular that added physics to dragged items
There was a seetting in that one too randomly apply gravity to open windows every few minutes; they would suddenly drop to three bottom of the screen and bounce for a few seconds until they settled. And one that replaced all standard text with Moo.
I would put those on lab machines and watch the wonderful chaos as a kid.
>>51775334
Dude. Take it back to >>>/b
Everyone in here is happy as fuck with our weird old systems. Piss off.
>>51776375
I did. But I stopped when I went to college, because I had Ethernet in the dorm.... and I couldn't get the beos drivers to work with any cards I could get ahold of. :(
>>51776222
Where do I submit banners?
>>51775334
>BSD
>Not entitled to opinion.
>>51775000
this.
when you look at the efforts and research that have been put in 90s UIs it's clear it's something from the past.
i got a thing for IRIX, however. it's not much of a nightmare-ish UNIX to use, and the UI is well designed. like their ...horribly overpriced machines.
>>51776771
The core2duo was the death knell for consumer disk socket boards. Before then you could get Intel and tyan dual socket boards for just a bit more than their single socket counterparts, and cheaper brands sold dual socket boards for the same price as the single socket intels. But when you could get two physical cores with hyperthreadding to show as 4, who needs dual sockets? Also, Intel stopped selling consumer procs that would work in smp boards, so it wasn't just consumer's fault.
>>51778548
WHY WOULDN'T YOU RAPE IT?
>>51765537
>>51765563
the only one for i386/amd64 asm, he means (i hope). if you mean the ITS then yes, it was all asm. pic not unrelated: PedroM for ti-89 m68k
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/319/31951.html
>>51766720
why not any other unix? interested to hear your reasons
>>51774500
>500
internal server error
the only thing keeping windows alive are SSDs and old people who auto upgraded. nothing can match asm or even C performance wise, and asm is beginning to matter again as devices get smaller
>>51775334
I use this every single day, but did run it in a VM for some months before committing full time.
anyway post over, plan 9 is cool in a VM, the only useful obscure thing I used was Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.
>>51778412
Don't forget that one that mirrored all on-screen text. It even worked in web browsers.
>>51774663
I have the hardware for it but it's dead right now.
Kikes want six times what I paid for it for a new PSU and IBM rivets them shut so you can't repair them yourself without ripping the thing to shreds.
>>51764792
haha le upboats for le popular culture reference redditbro! XD le references are so le randum
Fuck off.
>>51771254
I daily drove my 500 MHz G4 running 9.1 for around a month and a half this year and it was actually... pretty okay. Since all I do on the internet is surf Wikipedia, shitpost on 4chan and surf FTPs and old pre web-2.0 sites it was reasonably alright with browsing, absolutely fine for checking my email, and I had massive shareware and commercial software archives at my disposal.
>>51774748
>those palm and xerox schemes
Please tell me wherever you found that had download links.
>>51780061
>Please tell me wherever you found that had download links.
They're actually on the official Kaleidoscope webpage! It's strange, though... at first glance, it looked like the kaleidoscope.net domain finally expired some time early this year, so I dropped it in archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141230112150/http://kaleidoscope.net/schemes/
The WayBackMachine has it archived just fine, but if you click any of the download links it'll say that the file wasn't indexed and will try redirecting you to the same URL on the modern web, and there the file download works!
So through some kind of weirdness, the kaleidoscope.net front page is down but all of the scheme archive files are still being served.
Anyway, if you look around on the archive.org version you can find both the Palm and Xerox schemes and the downloads will work through redir to actual kaleidoscope.net.
Maybe we should write a script to scrape the entire scheme archive before it goes offline entirely...
>>51779897
>ripping the thing to shreds.
Drill out the rivets and then use bolts to re-secure...
>>51769184
I fooled around with QNX some in high school during the free years. Based OS
OpenVMS. Was actually quite nice. Wasn't that long ago, either. It's still in use at my old employer.
>>51779897
you need a buddy with a machine shop. drill those rivets out.
>>51780438
>Maybe we should write a script to scrape the entire scheme archive before it goes offline entirely...
Someone should, I'm currently working on an archive that I'll probably put up in the future, right now I just have all of the mass:werk schemes and everything from the info-mac shareware archive on there, as well as installers for kaleidoscope itself which are annoying as fuck to find for some reason.
I use Amiga...
