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Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#1 Post by i-SnipeZ » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:33 pm

If not then oh well but i can wish.
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#2 Post by basketb » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:01 pm

There is, it's called Linux.

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#3 Post by BigWarpGuy » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:12 pm

There is also a project called K42.
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/res ... index.html
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indirectly, yes

#4 Post by BigWarpGuy » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:49 pm

Indirectly, there is. It is called eComStation. It is an updated version of IBM"s OS/2 Warp. http://www.ecomstation.com They are working on a version 2.0. I look forward to using it. 8)
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#5 Post by 3266fast » Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:11 pm

i-SnipeZ wrote:If not then oh well but i can wish.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#6 Post by visionviper » Mon May 18, 2009 10:50 pm

i-SnipeZ wrote:If not then oh well but i can wish.
As you can see the answer is yes, but none of them are going to be mainstream like Windows or even Mac OS.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#7 Post by BigWarpGuy » Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:09 pm

There is OSFree. http://www.osfree.org There is also Voyager. http://voyager.netlabs.org They are both being developed but progress is slow. 8)
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#8 Post by Bookworm » Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:10 pm

> but none of them are going to be mainstream

That's good. :D

> like Windows

This program has performed an illegal operation and the <censored> <blankety blank> <nasty, aren't I?> programmer should be arrested.

> or even Mac OS

Discontinued along with the Power PC. Now all Apple sells are Macintosh brand PC's. :cry:
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#9 Post by ThinkRob » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:36 pm

Discontinued along with the Power PC. Now all Apple sells are Macintosh brand PC's.
Eh?

Mac OS X is still alive and well. I take it you were referring to the 'classic' Mac OS? Well... yeah, that's gone... but it's not exactly a great loss...
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#10 Post by Bookworm » Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:47 am

I was referring to Macintosh computers, which are based on the 68000/PPC processors, not intel. Macs were discontinued a few years ago. Now all Apple sells are PCs running an alternative OS named after Mac OS but obviously not compatible with it. I've heard that it is actually a unix with a Mac style GUI.

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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#11 Post by Unknown_K » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:05 pm

IBM did OS/2 back when they had a huge PC manufacturing business, they sold that off so I don't see the point of wasting time and money doing an OS. eComstation is OS/2 that was sold off.

Does IBM have their own UNIX anymore (AIX) or are they just using Linux?
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#12 Post by Temetka » Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:59 am

Bookworm,

Before maligning a multi-billion dollar corporation I would do some research into what they actually sell and what direction they are actually headed in. PowerPC may have reached the end of the line, Apple has not.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#13 Post by Bookworm » Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:20 pm

I never said anything negative about Apple's PCs. I heard they're pretty good. My point is that they are PCs, not Macs, running a unix that looks like Mac OS. If you still insist that Apple's Macintosh brand PC are Macs, please explain why it's so easy to put Windows on them (horrifying true Mac users) and Mac OS X on a ThinkPad.

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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#14 Post by yak » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:17 pm

Bookworm wrote:I never said anything negative about Apple's PCs. I heard they're pretty good. My point is that they are PCs, not Macs, running a unix that looks like Mac OS. If you still insist that Apple's Macintosh brand PC are Macs, please explain why it's so easy to put Windows on them (horrifying true Mac users) and Mac OS X on a ThinkPad.
Yes, Mac OS core is based on BSD, a unix-like OS, but that is just one part of the whole OS and a lot of the code in the core was actually written by Apple. The fact that it has a POSIX interface does not make it a Linux. And as for the hardware, would you put Windows and Linux guys in the same bag just because they run their OS on the same hardware? Using custom chips doesn't make much sense economically so Apple uses what's available. And they are still putting it all together so tying the OS to the hardware is their right. What matters for most customers is the final product. They don't care if there is Intel or PowerPC in it as long as it works like they want.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#15 Post by ThinkRob » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:40 am

yak wrote: Yes, Mac OS core is based on BSD, a unix-like OS, but that is just one part of the whole OS and a lot of the code in the core was actually written by Apple. The fact that it has a POSIX interface does not make it a Linux. And as for the hardware, would you put Windows and Linux guys in the same bag just because they run their OS on the same hardware?
Well, to be fair, a good chunk of Darwin is taken directly from FreeBSD (most of the userland tools), and a good chunk of xnu was written by what was (at the time) NeXT. That said, most of the mid-level stuff -- the APIs such as Core(Data|Image|Audio|Video|Animation), a good chunk of Cocoa, etc. -- was indeed written by Apple.

Still, it's not as though Apple wrote the entire OS. There *is* a very large amount of open source code that they didn't write. (Examples: CUPS, Apache, the BSD userland, SQLite, OpenSSH, X11, gcc, PHP, and many more.)
And they are still putting it all together so tying the OS to the hardware is their right. What matters for most customers is the final product. They don't care if there is Intel or PowerPC in it as long as it works like they want.
Well... it's their "right" to introduce that sort of artificial restriction, sure... but I'm not so sure it's their "right" to try to punish people who wish to circumvent said restriction. That's a debate for another time though...
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS- Yes in eCS 2.0

#16 Post by BigWarpGuy » Sat May 29, 2010 7:54 am

In a way, yes. It is 2.0 of eComStation that was just released to GA just recently.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#17 Post by jdrou » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:45 am

Sorry for necromancy:
Unknown_K wrote: Does IBM have their own UNIX anymore (AIX) or are they just using Linux?
AIX 7 was released Sept 2010. (Part of my job is admin for a bunch of old AIX systems.)
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#18 Post by ThinkRob » Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:31 am

IBM's also got i as well, and they're definitely still maintaining that.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#19 Post by granular » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:27 pm

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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#20 Post by ThinkRob » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:30 pm

granular wrote:How many OS does this world need?
A lot.

There are very, very few "one size fits all" solutions in computing.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#21 Post by Unknown_K » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:15 am

The more the better, variety is the spice of life.
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Re: Will there ever be a new IBM OS

#22 Post by BigWarpGuy » Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:48 am

Arca Noae is developing for OS/2 - eCS.
https://www.arcanoae.com/
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