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I think a user friendly modern desktop OS built upon a foundation of OpenVMS would be amazing. Ultimately of what you listed I think the stuff developed at Xer
by lockhouse 3y ago
I think a user friendly modern desktop OS built upon a foundation of OpenVMS would be amazing.
Ultimately of what you listed I think the stuff developed at Xerox shaped modern computing the most. The rest of them focused too much on mainframes, minis, and backend enterprise computing instead of personal computing.
- masswerk 3y agoI'd mention the DEC PDP-1: most of what is not batch processing and many software tools with some linage to things still used today starts there.