[SmellyGeekBoy]

> So in his spare time, [Berners-Lee] wrote up some software to address this shortfall: a little program he named Enquire. It allowed users to create "nodes"—information-packed index card-style pages that linked to other pages. Unfortunately, the PASCAL application ran on CERN's proprietary operating system. "The few people who saw it thought it was a nice idea, but no one used it. Eventually, the disk was lost, and with it, the original Enquire."

Sounds like this was pre-NeXT, or at least on another in-house OS. It would be interesting to see what it was all about.

[jhbadger]

The Wikipedia article on ENQUIRE says it ran under SINTRAN III (the standard OS for many Norsk Data mainframes in the 1970s-1980s). So not a CERN-specific OS, just one not known to many people outside European users of mainframes at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE