This would be a fun dataset to run an interactive visualization on – I presume the author used some kind of relational data structure to generate the SVG; I wonder if they'd mind sharing it.
Nice to see A/ROSE on there. You haven't been forgotten little fella! Such a cool idea that actually worked pretty well and simultaneously went next to nowhere.
Interesting how the Linuxes were picked and split up. I understand the difficulty on where to draw the line on what Linux to add - so many out there.
But I'd expect to see NixOS on there - such a different way to interact with a (u|li)nix system, aside from GNU Guix System. I'd consider those more of an "Operating System" than say mandrake, which is on the list
just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.
feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
True, but the same statement could be made about most software (including perhaps 95% of apps on Android and iOS app stores). Perhaps mobile apps provide some form of return on investment through mobile advertising, although it's probably not much.
Anyway, there are people that are perfectly willing to toil away on their labor of love because it's a hobby for them and they get some form of satisfaction from it all.
Fun to look around the chart. Had forgotten of any link between OS/2 and NT, tho maybe not as clear directly connected, even though similar hires and since IBM and MS were working together you would think the conversation was shared.
This is amazing, but it would be even better if one could zoom in and out, and scroll left to right. On a 1080p display, I could not read some of the names because they were overlapping.
Minor, minor nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Realtime OS. I know little more about it than its name and that it was used on their line of Quattro machines, which I think were kind of minicomputers built around MIPS CPUs. There is another OS by Nixdorf listed, which I know nothing about, is that a different system?
Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD/Free/NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn't even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn't even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: https://www.levenez.com/unix/. It's a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relationships, but it's only for Unix systems.
clicking Back to Homepage we land on a curious selection of lists and articles:
Who is "White"?
Decline of White Demographics
German Elections since 1871
What would the World look like if the Axis had won WW2?
EU of Regions after Right-Wing Takeover