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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about Solaris? Irix? OS/2? BeOS? Certainly people have at least a passing awareness of the most popular OSes. I mean, I wouldn't expect VMS to be on their list, but...

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about Solaris?

Never happened. Didn't exist. Nope.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly what a SunOS user would say.

[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Haiku? And ReactOS? And GreenteaOS? And Minix? And GNU Hurd? And ELKS? And Ironclad? And HyperBK? And ToaruOS? And Redox OS?

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right?

I could believe maybe only half know what VxWorks is, but otherwise....

And like a half lf these also knows about Xen