Old Operating Systems Don't Die

After eight years of development, a new operating system called Haiku has been released in alpha form.

CP/M never really went away-it evolved into DOS PLUS, which then morphed into DR DOS, which one-time owner Caldera open-sourced as OpenDOS. Both DR DOS and OpenDOS are still with us.

Apple told it that having Commodore BASIC on the iPhone was too dangerous, which led Manomio to submit a version with BASIC disabled-except you could turn it on again if you knew how.

Wikipedia says that AmigaOS 4.1 was released last year, and that a "quick fix" (read: service pack) came out just last June. All I know for sure is that this version won't run on my Amiga 500-and that I'll shed a silent tear if AmigaOS ever ceases to exist.