[Ipg-smz] Fwd: "Second System and Osborne Effects" gallery

[Perlow, Jason]

Not really. Was just an update of 98 which was an update of 95. Drivers and
stuff, not a platform change

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:20 AM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Perlow,
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> *Subject:* [Ipg-smz] Fwd: "Second System and Osborne Effects" gallery
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> I am working on a companion gallery to an article I just published about
> Google's Pixel slate and Chrome OS.
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> https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-grow-up-drop-the-apple-like-arrogance-or-chrome-os-will-fail/
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> In it I discuss the "Second System" effect:
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> "Second System Effect," by author Fred Brooks in his work *The Mythical
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> 1975, which he notes that small, elegant and successful systems tend to be
> succeeded by over-engineered and bloated systems due to inflated
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> I also discuss the Obsorne Effect in that article so I am thinking of
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> Here is a list, I think we can add a few, I'd like your recommendations:
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> Second Systems
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> 1) OS/360, IBM (1964, the original second system, succeeded Series 700)
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> 2) IBM OS/2 (Succeeded DOS, Windows 3.x)
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> 3) Windows NT 3.1 (Succeeded OS, Windows 3.x)
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> 4) Windows Vista (Succeeded Windows XP)
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> 5) Windows 8/8.1 (Succeeded Windows 7)
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> 6) BlackBerry OS 10 / BlackBerry Playbook (succeeded Blackberry classic OS)
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> 7) Palm WebOS (Succeeded classic Palm OS)
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> 8) Apple System 7 (Replaced Apple System 6 and classic 68000 OS, was
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> 9) Intel Itanium (Succeeded x86)
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> 9.5) IBM PowerPC (Succeeded x86)
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> 10)  NeXT (Succeeded Apple Mac)
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> 11) Lisa (Succeeded Apple II, preceded Mac)
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> 12) Apple III (Succeeded Apple II)
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> 13) Commodore Amiga (Succeeded Commodore 64)
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> 14) Atari ST (Succeeded Atari 800)
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> 1) The Original Osborne effect (Osborne 2)
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> 2) Microsoft "Cairo" (Original Object-Oriented NT 5.0 project, failed)
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> 3) Taligent OS (failed IBM/Apple Partnership to merge OSes)
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> 4) SCO/IBM Project Monterey (this might be better on the Second System
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> 5) Google Fuchsia (potential Osborne)
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