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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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jcastro ◴[11 Oct 25 23:09 UTC] No.45553529[source]▶
OS/2 my beloved.
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hagbard_c ◴[11 Oct 25 23:19 UTC] No.45553604[source]▶
Nah, that time has passed and there's not much to miss from the base OS. What would be interesting is for IBM to publish the source to the Workplace Shell and the underlying SOM code so it might get a new life running on one of the free *nixes.
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1. walterbell ◴[11 Oct 25 23:40 UTC] No.45553755[source]▶
It ran lots of banking ATMs that were not hacked.