11 Forgotten operating systems have you used it?

Desktop computers, smartphones and other products of the core is actually operating system, platform competition is always the main melody of digital products. Whether it's windows or iOS, there are countless products that have tried to compete with Microsoft and Apple before they succeed, but they have certainly contributed to today's pattern, to see the 11 forgotten operating systems.

1.ms-dos

Listing Time: 1981

Developer: Microsoft

If you have an IBM PC in the 80 or early 90, you should be familiar with MS-DOS systems. It is not actually Microsoft's original, but Microsoft obtained from a Seattle computer, initially named 86-dos, then Microsoft applied to the Intel 8086 PC, and renamed MS-DOS, before the 2000 stop the update, a total of eight versions.

2.AmigaOS

Listing Time: 1985

Developer: Commodore

The "Old Fashioned", which may be older than many netizens, was in fact a rather avant-garde personal computer. In 1985, it became the most powerful personal computer at the time with a color screen (4096-color display), four-channel sampling stereo, a graphical multitasking interface, and a custom powerful graphics accelerator chip, while Apple Mac and PC were in the "Stone Age", with reports, Jobs once felt uneasy about AmigaOS's strength. However, Commodore Company does not seem to be a good operator, such a good product will be buried.

3.os/2

Listing Time: 1985

Developer: IBM

Microsoft and IBM collaborated in 1985 to develop a OS/2 system that can be seen as the predecessor of Windows. But with the success of the Windows 3 system, two companies terminated their partnership in 1990. Although IBM did not continue to follow up on this system, you can still see the OS/2 system on some old-fashioned ATM machines.

4.Arthur

Listing Time: 1987

Developer: Acorn Computers LTD

The Arthur system is only 5 months old and can be imagined to be completed, but it is surprisingly long-lived, insisting that it will not be discontinued until 1989. It is said that some users are still using the system, but we don't know who it is.

5.BeOS

Listing Time: 1991

Developer: Be Inc.

As early as 1995, Apple offered a 125 million-dollar takeover of being Inc, but the company's CEO was not satisfied with the price, leading to a break-up of the takeover. In the end, Apple acquired Steve Jobs's Next,palm company, which bought the declining Be Inc Inc. in 2001 with 11 million dollars, and the system became history.

6.xts-400

Listing Time: 1992

Developer: BAE Systems

The system is highly secure, so its subsequent versions are still being used by the U.S. military.

7. Inferno

Listing Time: 1996

Developer: Bell Labs

This is an open source system, so there are still different versions to be used, but the functionality is weak.

8.Desktop Linux

Listing Time: 1996

Developer: Linux

Linux systems are still there, but they are not mainstream, and only real tech geeks will stick with Linux.

9.Palm OS

Listing Time: 1996

Developer: Palm Inc.

Some 70, friends may be the "fat friend" The word is very cordial, as at that time and Microsoft Pocket PC split the world's PDA operating system, Palm OS is flourished, but due to poor multimedia and Internet performance, the final market eliminated.

10.Symbian

Listing Time: 1998

Developer: Nokia (Nokia acquired Symbian Company in 2008)

Symbian may be the most familiar operating system in this article, Nokia's many star models such as 7650, N73, N95 all carry this system, and gradually developed into S60, S80, S60 V5, Symbian 3 and other versions, the formation of a huge family. But, unable to keep up with the changing pace of smartphones from the keyboard to the touchscreen, Nokia eventually decided to eliminate Symbian and turn to Microsoft Wndows phone platform.

11. HP Web OS

Listing Time: 2009

Developer: Palm, HP

The Web OS is a product of Palm's response to Apple's iOS and has been praised after the launch of models such as the Palm Pre. In 2010, Hewlett-Packard invested 1.2 billion of billions of dollars in acquisitions of palm and web OS, and the year after the launch of the relevant smartphone and Tablet PC products. Unfortunately, because of poor promotion and dismal product sales, HP eventually halted the development of Web OS products and made the deal one of the most failed technology companies in the century.