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Timeline: 40 years of OS milestones

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
Computerworld; By Matt Lake 		Mail this story
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Lordy, lordy, look who's 40! Happy birthday, Unix -- you're looking great for your age. You certainly weren't the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer era into the microcomputer era and the personal computer era, winning fans wherever you went. How many other operating systems can make the same boast? With your birth as our starting point, then, let's look at the biggest desktop OS milestones of the past 40 years.

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Sander_Marechal ·
There's a nice followup to that articles with screenshots from long forgotten OSes: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
that article will be posting in a few hours...
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
its alright man, I saw them both at the same time too, but the editor in me said, "no, spread them out.." ;-)

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