A stylish multitasking OS that introduced a whole host of features that Windows, Linux and macOS would later adopt for their own, BeOS was a true multimedia innovator that left the market with a whimper when its rights were sold to Palm in 2001. We're a bit sad that BeOS didn't take off. The personal edition includes 6-months support and maintenance, while the commercial edition includes one-year of priority support and maintenance. There are two editions available: Personal, which retails for $129 per license, and Commercial, which retails at $229 per license, though volume discounts are available. Though its native file system is JFS, it ships with drivers for the FAT32 file system. It can also run most DOS programs including games. This means it can run 16 and 32-Bit OS/2 applications as well as certain 32-Bit Windows apps. The English edition will be released first with the Spanish, German and other language editions to follow.ĪrcaOS includes a robust Unix compatibility subsystem, featuring a variety of ported Linux (opens in new tab) apps and some drivers, but still features the OS/2 Workplace Shell.ĪrcaOS is a 32-Bit OS that runs on the x86 processor architecture, so should be compatible with some particularly old PCs. ArcaOS 5.1 is still being actively developed.
While OS/2 barely survives as a legacy system, even after being extended for a while as eComStation. But at least in the education space, the future of Chrome OS looks fairly bright.ArcaOS is an operating system based on the last IBM release for OS/2. IDC also noted that gaming PCs were a big driver of growth, and it was a particularly strong year for the Mac.Īs some of the world may find a new kind of post- or late-pandemic normalcy later this year or next year, new sales figures will give a clearer indication of where things will go in the future, not just how they went in 2020. But the entire market grew overall, not just Chrome OS. Even then, IDC indicated that the increase in sales was driven in large part by the expansion of Chromebooks both within and outside of the education market.Īs students in many communities have had to attend class virtually from home and their parents have had to do work remotely, too, PC sales jumped during the year. Last month, IDC's report on PC sales showed the first year of consistent growth of traditional PC (desktop, laptop, workstation) sales in years. The trend looks to be in Google's favor here, but 2020 was far from a normal year. Windows fell from 85.4 percent to 80.5 percent. Meanwhile, Chrome OS skyrocketed from 6.4 percent in 2019 to 10.8 percent in 2020.
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