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This maybe a little off topic but... wait what? CERN had their own OS? What was its name?
by datalus 7y ago
This maybe a little off topic but... wait what? CERN had their own OS? What was its name?
- kbumsik 7y agoNeXTStep, Steve Jobs made a company NeXT after being kicked out from Apple. This OS became the foundation of the Mac OSX. [1] Aside from NeXTStep, it was even before Linux was born. There were many historic BSD derivatives in that moment. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-prefix-mean https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-...
- treve 7y agoI don't think the article was talking about NeXTStep in that paragraph.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago> So in his spare time, [Berners-Lee] wrote up some software to address this shortfall: a little program he named Enquire. It allowed users to create "nodes"—information-packed index card-style pages that linked to other pages. Unfortunately, the PASCAL application ran on CERN's proprietary operating system. "The few people who saw it thought it was a nice idea, but no one used it. Eventually, the disk was lost, and with it, the original Enquire." Sounds like this was pre-NeXT, or at least on another in-house OS. It would be interesting to see what it was all about.
- jhbadger 7y agoThe Wikipedia article on ENQUIRE says it ran under SINTRAN III (the standard OS for many Norsk Data mainframes in the 1970s-1980s). So not a CERN-specific OS, just one not known to many people outside European users of mainframes at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE