To anyone who hasn't already: I really recommend checking out Haiku OS [1], the FOSS successor to BeOS. It's so pleasant to use and supports a surprisingly large catalog of software.

[1]: https://www.haiku-os.org/

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ecliptik 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude built me a meta web/notes/code search engine with IOS and MacOS apps, and for fun I asked it to make a Haiku version [1], which it did in under 20 minutes.

With AI I feel like a lot of these bygone-era OS's could see a whole new ecosystem of modern apps within a very short period of time.

1. https://github.com/machiya-kobo/shiori/tree/main#haiku

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ben_w 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Mmm. Or improve the OSes themselves.

At this point, they could likely decompile MacOS classic and rework it to give it modern memory protection, virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, and networking.

I assume booting an OS with a mere few megabytes of RAM footprint would only take milliseconds?

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hadlock 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I am in the middle of doing this with apple's System 6 and adding a posix-compliant shell under the codename bluetail, and working my way up, i've got it booting with an os, busybox, openssh and stuff. Boots on a raspberry pi 3 A+ bare metal (And qemu, of course). And full usb MIDI support, because (I said so, and) there's actually an incredible catalog of early DAW software that will run on System 6. And pretty decent usb ethernet, sound, webcam etc etc. The future of hobby software is wild.

	▲	tomduncalf 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Woah I never even considered the possibly of rebooting old OS with new features. Very cool. Would love to experience that era of music tech
	▲	anthk 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Target system 7.5.3, it will run far more stuff.

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hadlock 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Haiku is actually pretty usable these days, someone has a draft nvidia driver that's not completely terrible (as of maybe a month ago? still very DIY but neat), and there's a surprising number of retro games and shareware in their package manager catalog these days.