My Obscure Computer System

[Revoltingest]

I just discovered a retro computing forum
with a thread on my operating system
(for business, not the internet), BOS.
Any other users of an op sys that no one
else has ever heard of?

 

[ChristineM]

Our server ran on IRIX. Now obsolete, it was based on UNIX and BSD.

 

[Revoltingest]

Our server ran on IRIX. Now obsolete, it was based on UNIX and BSD.

IRIX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ChristineM]

IRIX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yes

 

[Revoltingest]

One nice thing about BOS is that all
menus & system commands begin
with $. The dollar sign means nothing
to Limeys, so they used it as a prefix.

 

[Heyo]

I just discovered a retro computing forum
with a thread on my operating system
(for business, not the internet), BOS.
Any other users of an op sys that no one
else has ever heard of?

Back in the stone age of computing I worked on a UniFLEX system. (Not the original version described in the link but the one for 680XX processors.) The main difference to a Unix V7 system was that UniFLEX was "real time" capable (guaranteed response time to interrupts).
We ended up writing our own OSes for target system anyway but we could at least test the programs on the mini.

 

[Revoltingest]

Back in the stone age of computing I worked on a UniFLEX system. (Not the original version described in the link but the one for 680XX processors.) The main difference to a Unix V7 system was that UniFLEX was "real time" capable (guaranteed response time to interrupts).
We ended up writing our own OSes for target system anyway but we could at least test the programs on the mini.

Now that is really talking dirty!

 

[libre]

I have touched z/os in a few circumstances professionally.
Hopefully won't have to be cracking those skills out again in the future, as mainframes become less and less relevant.