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    Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot

    Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp

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    Image of TheWerewolf - Sotto voce TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
    07/11/09

    In reply to Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot
    Wow... does that ever bring back memories. And I *knew* AmigaOS and BeOS would be on the list. I'm surprised GEM (also known as AtariOS, but they were just one users of it) wasn't on the list.



    I'm not sure I'd call CP/M a *failed* OS. It was a major OS in its day. It's more than the computer world moved on from the paradigms that defined it. In the same way, I think it's a wee bit too early to say desktop Linux has failed, although I certainly get their point.



    It HAS been "The Year of Unix/Linux" for a LONG time now...
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    07/11/09

    In reply to Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot
    That's cool. My first "real" computer ran OS/2. I've also played around with BeOs.
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    Image of dlomax dlomax
    07/11/09

    @Barry99705: What did your non-real computers run? I'm looking for a joke involving virtual computers or unicorns and rainbows.
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    07/11/09

    @dlomax: OS i...
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    07/11/09

    @dlomax: C-64 and an Atari 520 ST.
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    Image of omnomnomnom omnomnomnom
    07/11/09

    In reply to Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot
    Umm, Inferno/Plan 9 is very alive and well. It just didn't live up to the initial expectation in the workstation OS space.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    07/11/09

    @omnomnomnom: Sure, and next year is the year of HURD!
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    07/11/09

    In reply to Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot
    Time does not forget. People do.
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    Image of bfaber bfaber
    07/11/09

    In reply to Failed Mobile and Desktop OSes That Time Forgot
    Ohhh, the linux guys won't like that list.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    07/11/09

    @bfaber: I always wondered if anyone ELSE ever noticed that, well, next year, gosh darn it, NEXT year will be the year of Linux!



    Linux: The No. 1 desktop in the future!
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    12/18/08

    In reply to Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp
    Nice, but a touch-keyboard? you can shove that up your asses, motorola...
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    Image of Fuzz Fuzz
    12/17/08

    In reply to Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp
    The Calgary? I live in Calgary, and I couldn't imagine a worse name for a product . . .
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/17/08

    @Fuzz: It's hard enough to take Calgary seriously NOW. Just imagine. "Yep. Mom's calling me on my Calgary".
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/17/08

    @Fuzz: I've only heard Calgary said in a heavy French Canadian accent, so it's even more comical to me.......eh?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/17/08

    In reply to Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp
    Unpossible....unpossible. This is obviously one of Infernus J. Seighton's schemes to throw things off course and upset the balance of the universe, because there's no way that Motorola could come up with something that looks worthwhile.
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    12/17/08

    @Kaiser Shove This In Your Stocking Machead:


    Yep feel the same way. (Typing this while working for Motorola)


    Could it be POSSIBLE!?!?!?!?


    Hope: what we cling to when reality is hell.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/17/08

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Well, it IS the quintessential human delusion, the stuff that Moto's head-of-the-serpent must be running on at the moment. I wish their frackin' love affair with low-fail rate button input was set back a bit in favor of actual buttons, not flexipad segments a la RAZR.
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    12/17/08

    @Kaiser Shove This In Your Stocking Machead:


    Sussh! Quiet! Before the ISO 9000 Six-Six Quality Management people hear you!


    Mindless Moto Drone: "I love my Motorola Q with its rubber keypad that is all one piece, its just so so wonderful, wow. And did you see the Q Slider? It is such a leap from the Q that has been around for years!"

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/17/08

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: And I love my baby blue Razr phone. It's wonderful P2K software puts a spring.....in.........my..............step.....
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    Image of jewsrock jewsrock
    12/17/08

    In reply to Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp
    BGR link is broken. And about the first pic-stick android in it and it seems like you got yourself an iPhone killer
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    Image of Sean Robertson Sean Robertson
    12/17/08

    @jewsrock: Here it is:


    [www.boygeniusreport.com]


    Really don't know how people screw stuff like that up as often as they do - it's pretty easy to copy and paste a link. ;-)

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/17/08

    @Sean Robertson: Not if you're using an iPhone...
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