Operating systems are forgotten by time

List of 10 operating systems sunk into oblivion by the introduction of Business Insider .

AmigaOS

Year of birth: 1985

Company: Commodore

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In 2005, Ars Technica, a technology newspaper, wrote, when it was released in 1985, the Amiga computer was a "time-ahead machine " with a color screen, a stereo system . Steve Jobs was said to be very good. worrying about the appearance of AmigaOS, but fortunately for Jobs and Apple, Commodore could not bring this operating system more developed.

BeOS

Year of birth: 1991

Company: Be Inc.

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Apple offered to buy Be Inc. for $ 125 million in 1995, but the company's CEO Jean-Louis Gassee asked for $ 200 million. Therefore, Apple bought Steve Jobs's NeXT company. Later, Palm bought Be Inc. for $ 11 million in 2001.

OS / 2

Year of birth: 1985

Company: IBM

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Microsoft and IBM together created OS / 2 in 1985, but when Windows 3 was widely accepted, this partnership broke down in 1990. Although it is no longer supported by IBM, this operating system so far still used for many ATM automatic teller machines.

Arthur

Year of birth: 1987

Company: Acorn Computers Ltd

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Developed within 5 months, Arthur's operating system is expected to be forgotten soon. But this operating system persisted until 1989 when the RISC OS came into being. RISC OS is still in use today, but it is unclear where it is used.

Inferno

Year of birth: 1996

Company: Bell Labs

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This is an open source operating system, so many versions exist. However, this operating system is only used at a very limited level.

XTS-400

Year of birth: 1992

Company: BAE Systems

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Appreciated by the level of security, this operating system and its later versions are still used for military technology.

Palm OS (aka Garnet OS)

Year of birth: 1996

Company: Palm Inc.

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In 2002, Palm separated the operating system segment into a separate company. Creativity is also dead . The Palm OS, from being a powerful pioneering operating system for PDAs, is no longer keeping up with Web development and multimedia.

HP WebOS

Year of birth: 2009

Company: Palm, then HP

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Palm launched WebOS as an answer to Apple's iOS operating system. The operating system was initially included in the Palm Pre smartphone and was considered one of the iPhone's most serious competitors at the time.

In 2010, HP bought Palm and WebOS for $ 1.2 billion. In 2011, HP wanted to launch a smartphone and tablet running WebOS, but all failed. So far, HP has abandoned WebOS and the operating system has become open source software.

Symbian

Year of birth: 1998

Company: Nokia (acquiring Symbian in 2008)

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Once one of the most popular mobile operating systems, Symbian was removed by Nokia and replaced by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. Currently, all of Nokia's most prominent devices are running Windows Phone 8.

MS-DOS

Year of birth: 1981

Company: Microsoft

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Those who use IBM computers in the 1980s and early 1990s were familiar with the MS-DOS operating system. Microsoft bought an 86-DOS operating system from Seattle Computer Products and later, transformed into an operating system called MS-DOS. There were eight versions of MS-DOS that were released before the operating system was stopped in 2000.