{"id":768,"date":"2011-05-16T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:29:15","slug":"the-secret-world-of-alternative-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/768\/the-secret-world-of-alternative-operating-systems","title":{"rendered":"The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/05\/15\/alternative-operating-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/alternative_operating_systems_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems on Technologizer.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think Windows, OS X, and Linux are the only modern desktop operating systems out there?<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p><em>(OK, I know you&#8217;re smarter than that.  But just for a moment, feign ignorance so my intro works.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Think again!  Up now on Technologizer is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/05\/15\/alternative-operating-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; a slideshow devoted to 12 little-known GUI-based operating systems.  Many of them are free, all run on the x86 platform, and none are based on Linux.  Even cooler, a handful of them descend from legacy OSes and GUI shells that once intended to compete with Microsoft Windows.<\/p>\n<p>This particular slideshow is devoted to operating systems that run on the most common PC standard at the moment, so don&#8217;t get disappointed if you don&#8217;t see AmigaOS, RiscOS, or MiNT up there.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Windows, OS X, and Linux are the only modern desktop operating systems out there? No? (OK, I know you&#8217;re smarter than that. But just for a moment, feign ignorance so my intro works.) Think again! Up now on Technologizer is &#8220;The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems&#8221; &#8212; a slideshow devoted to 12 little-known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}