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Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

100 pointsby manuelmagicalmost 4 years ago

15 comments

feiknamealmost 4 years ago
Link to SVG because scrolling doesn&#x27;t work in website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eylenburg.github.io&#x2F;pics&#x2F;Eylenburg_Operating_System_Timeline_Family_Tree.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eylenburg.github.io&#x2F;pics&#x2F;Eylenburg_Operating_System_...</a>
SavantIdiotalmost 4 years ago
Awesome compilation but two rendering problems:<p>1. scrolling, I can&#x27;t see the right side<p>2. collapsable hierarchies - i can&#x27;t get a bird&#x27;s-eye view for prolific parents
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im_down_w_otpalmost 4 years ago
Nice to see A&#x2F;ROSE on there. You haven&#x27;t been forgotten little fella! Such a cool idea that actually worked pretty well and simultaneously went next to nowhere.
jeppesen-ioalmost 4 years ago
Interesting how the Linuxes were picked and split up. I understand the difficulty on where to draw the line on what Linux to add - so many out there.<p>But I&#x27;d expect to see NixOS on there - such a different way to interact with a (u|li)nix system, aside from <i>GNU Guix System</i>. I&#x27;d consider those more of an &quot;Operating System&quot; than say <i>mandrake</i>, which is on the list
convolvatronalmost 4 years ago
just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.<p>feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
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ChrisArchitectalmost 4 years ago
Fun to look around the chart. Had forgotten of any link between OS&#x2F;2 and NT, tho maybe not as clear directly connected, even though similar hires and since IBM and MS were working together you would think the conversation was shared.
krylonalmost 4 years ago
This is amazing, but it would be even better if one could zoom in and out, and scroll left to right. On a 1080p display, I could not read some of the names because they were overlapping.<p>Minor, <i>minor</i> nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Realtime OS. I know little more about it than its name and that it was used on their line of Quattro machines, which I think were kind of minicomputers built around MIPS CPUs. There is another OS by Nixdorf listed, which I know nothing about, is that a different system?
omoikanealmost 4 years ago
What operating system is &quot;doesmu&quot;? I suspect it&#x27;s really a typo for &quot;dosemu&quot;, but it seems strange to include that on chart of operating systems.
islandnutalmost 4 years ago
Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD&#x2F;Free&#x2F;NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn&#x27;t even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&amp;T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn&#x27;t even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
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supergarfieldalmost 4 years ago
Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levenez.com&#x2F;unix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levenez.com&#x2F;unix&#x2F;</a>. It&#x27;s a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relationships, but it&#x27;s only for Unix systems.
jeppesen-ioalmost 4 years ago
windows nt started from os&#x2F;2? no idea
manuelmagicalmost 4 years ago
I already sent to eylenburg a small suggestion: after 2016 MacOS X is called macOS.
raszalmost 4 years ago
clicking Back to Homepage we land on a curious selection of lists and articles:<p><pre><code> Who is &quot;White&quot;? Decline of White Demographics German Elections since 1871 What would the World look like if the Axis had won WW2? EU of Regions after Right-Wing Takeover </code></pre> Im sensing a bit of a theme here.
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howolduisalmost 4 years ago
I can&#x27;t scroll horizontally...
jeppesen-ioalmost 4 years ago
I want this a poster