Subj : Mystic BBS v1.12 Alpha 40 released!
To   : Digital Avatar
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Dec 30 2018 15:15:41

  Re: Mystic BBS v1.12 Alpha 40 released!
  By: Digital Avatar to Nightfox on Sat Dec 29 2018 11:02 pm

 Ni>> OS/2 is actually still in development, in some form.  Quite some
 Ni>> time ago, I heard IBM sold OS/2 to another company, who continued
 Ni>> developing it as "eComStation".  More recently, I heard another
 Ni>> company now owns it and is developing it as ArcaOS:
 Ni>> https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-now-available/

 DA> Geez. That's almost as bad as people clinging to AmigaOS.

Is that really bad?  In a way, it seems like people who like restoring and
maintaining old cars.

There was another alternate OS in the 90s that was being developed called BeOS.
It originally started out on PowerPC hardware, I think, and they were trying to
get Apple to buy it as the successor to the classic Mac OS (before Apple ended
up buying NeXT).  BeOS was then ported to Intel x86.  I thought it was actually
a fairly nice OS, but it didn't really catch on in the marketplace.  There's
now an open-source re-creation of BeOS though which recently released their
beta 1 release:
https://www.haiku-os.org/
I've tried it in a VM, and it actually looks like they've made some decent
progress..  For their beta 1 release, I've read it seems to work fairly well on
actual hardware if you get the right hardware that's compatible with it. 
Hopefully they'll keep improving it with future releases.

Nightfox
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