Only remotely via SSH and very briefly - a friend of mine pickup an old (10yrs+) SGI box and I had a look around inside.

And yes SGI boxes are very expensive. As to the processor, MIPS > Itanic, obviously

Garnet OS: Palm OS's supposed replacement.

Windows Mobile: What really replaced Palm OS. Palm's newest devices use Windows Mobile.

Android: Supposed to be the next-generation OS for handhelds. Brush up on your Java if you want to create apps for it.

iPhone's OS: Dunno if there's a real name for it, but lots of third party apps are starting to be made for it.

FreeDOS: Open source alternative to DOS.

Remember Workbench? Does it even qualify as an OS, i guess it would.

Ahh those were the days......

Never heard of that one. This was the RISC i was referring to, a flashback from my hardware theory lessons.

It's called Mac OS X. Steve Jobs said it at MacWorld when introducing the iPhone for the first time.

Apparently it was the breath-stopping fact he said so dramatically that people began to applaud him  

@Everyone looking for other OS names: 

Let's set a criteria for looking for OSs: If they can't be skinned, they're not worth it  

I Learned on DOS 3.3, then 5 and 6 , and even after all these years, i have forgotten very little of it, in fact i am using vista now and i will open a run box, and when i am done i could always just click the X to close it, but i dont i always use the "exit" on the command line to close it,

How about PC-DOS, i think that was the name of it, i do know it was a disaster

The real Mac OS X, or did they just decide to keep the name?

Palm OS can be skinned . Linux can be skinned as well. Unfortunately, neither one uses Stardock products .

You can sorta customize DOS a bit. The prompt can be changed, and if you knew some ANSI escape sequences you could change colors around.

Thats because it's free. You notice companies dont support linux because they cant make any money off of it.....

Ok, leave it to the Brits to name an OS after a ChipDesign!

How about DR DOS?  Better than any version MS ever came out with (still being used in black box systems too).

That's not really a good distuinguishing feature in a *NIX os, since every damn terminal prompt that's in color can be skinned, not to mention every darn window manager.

FreeBSD and solaris

NeXT

Please do not just repeat operating systems already named.

And if you have experience with an OS please describe it.

I know NEXTSTEP only from the Cocoa API in Mac OS X.

(And while we are at it: Yes, the iPhone OS is Mac OS X.)

Leauki I thought this was my post!

My mistake was in the wording the post title, wanted people to look at the link and comment.  This really wasn't supposed to be about naming any and all OS past and present. 

Oh well, that's how things happen around here.  You just have to read what you type, several times, before hitting the send button.

Yeah, I looked at the article.

A few years ago I even considered buying a MorphOS computer (i.e. a Pegasos). That was before Apple switched to Intel when the PowerPC G4 and G5 were still expected to be upgraded again, and PowerPC was a "safe" architecture. I would have run Linux and MorphOS on the box.

But now I am totally on Intel.

I must admitt that I do not know all the operating systems mentioned in the article. But I think I will try them out, should they run on VMware.

IF ONLY I already had my two Sun servers and xVM. I could experiment much more.

Is A/S 400 still in use or has it gone the way of the Mac?

I still see it in some business environments.

Well I see Ubuntu has been mentioned .. that was one I know of..

There is or at least used to be a beta of GOS *google OS*. My hubby found that and test drove it. If anyone wants I can see if I can find a link or more information bout GOS

Nice thread and I am thinkin it very interesting.. Reading the link and then what everyone else has to say about OS's

Anne