I tried to start a talk series last year about these dead ends, but only https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-w

I tried to start a talk series last year about these dead ends, but only https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost actually made it out. Perhaps I'll pick up the thread later, because there are a lot of dead ends that had some amazing ideas that it either wasn't the right time for (BeOS, DomainOS), bad business decisions (Genera), or particularly insular communities where they were used (OS/400, TRON)