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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by blattimwind on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:52PM (#18622660)
Notably practically all 90s RISC operating systems were gone by the time the dot-com bubble burst.
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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by jonhendry18 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:56PM (#18622702)
Not really.

Some were ported to Intel. Others (HP/UX) became dedicated big iron operating systems. HP/UX and Solaris are still being updated and used.

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by 2trill2spill on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:24PM (#18623534)
Solaris is gone[1]. Illumos a fork of OpenSolaris still lives on however.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_sola...

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Re:Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed,... by skissane on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:03PM (#18623815)
> Solaris is gone

Solaris isn't dead. Oracle released version 11.4 in August this year: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-released...

The article you linked to doesn't say Solaris is gone either. It mentions large numbers of layoffs, but acknowledges that there is still a Solaris dev team in place (even if a significantly smaller one).

(Disclosure: Former Oracle employee, although I never worked on Solaris.)

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