Which technologies and operating systems died too soon?

os/2 in the consumer space

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Plan9

Might as well say it before somebody else does

>>55229106

Tandy corp

Google Wave

Thanks to their abysmal invite-only program, most people don't even know what it was ultimately going to be. If they did, they'd be crying bloody murder that Google scrapped something so totally fucking convenient.

>>55229097
Hot swap PCI-E

>>55229190
What the fuck point would that have served?

>>55229106
Micro channel architecture in the home ps2 space

>>55229097

MIPS

Is jfmsu eternal ?

>>55229097
Windows 9x.

OpenSolaris

>>55229183

I used it and it was shit

Meego

Presto opera.

>>55229097
tapan ghandi

>>55229116
this

Symbian, Maemo, Meego

UKIP

>>55229116
Plan 9 is not dead. It's in active development today.

>>55229097
4chan

>>55229183
I was using it and it's no wonder they shitcanned it. It was pretty atrocious.

>>55229266
MIPS is so so nice. It's a shame you can't use it for dick, these days

>>55229574
Dat previous and next page speed!
Never will I forget that.

Still unreached for some reason. And I'm not kidding when I'm saying that I'm desperately waiting for it to be implemented in Mozilla or Chromium.

>>55229097
webOS, the only issue it had, was too slow CPUs. With the current ARM CPU speeds and a situation like we had it 2011, webOS would easily have won the smartphone OS race.

But it was slow, it took 5 minutes to boot up and crashed often, it was really annoying.

Google Glass.

>>55229097
OpenAL/OpenAL Soft. It'd be nice to have a high performance, low level framework for cross-platform audiodev

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>>55230167
This.

No one cares about cool audio anymore.

linux

>>55230064
true, webOS was really good

it did take a year to boot but once up it was stable

the hardware wasn't very robust though

>>55229266
>implying

Routers are still going stronk with MIPS

>>55229097
CRT

Surprised I'm the first to say it.

>>55230407
CRTs kinda existed prety enough time.

>>55229574
;_;

>>55230407
>mfw we had 'retina displays' in the 2000s with CRTs
>mfw kids these days think retina is some new shit
>mfw I have no face

3d desktop environments

>>55229097
test

>>55230200
It's definitely not dead. Gamedev/VR is helping move things along with occlusion/spatialization. Still, lack of good low-level options suck

>>55231241
>'retina displays' in the 2000s with CRTs
Examples?
Maybe monochrome displays in medical or other extremely expensive high end sectors, but consumer color CRTs did not achieve anywhere near the resolutions of current LCDs. They probably would have in the same time frame, but they certainly didn't before CRTs were dead.

OS/2. If that shit had taken off instead of Microshit Faildows in the 90s we'd all be a LOT better off. Sure, we'd have IBM as our corporate overlords which could have been as bad or worse than Microsoft, but at least our OS wouldn't be complete goddamn garbage.

>>55231673
High resolution 19-22 inch monitors were fairly common in the late 90s early 00s.

>Syncmaster 957MB
>1920x1440

>ViewSonic P225f
>2048 x 1536

Here are a few comparisons:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/comparison,497.html

The Amazon fire phone lasted like a few months before they just dropped it and began selling at a huge loss.

It almost worked. If only they used Google play store. But on the plus side you can get that sweet hardware for cheap as fuck and put cyanogenmod on there and get the best possible budget phone, with some flaws.

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zip discs
betamax
quadraphonic stereo sound
long stroke recoil operation
space planes
zeppelins
nimo tubes
tesla turbines
the wankel engine
lead paint
>pic related, 40mm ATGM round

>>55233023
Just because a CRT can scan a resolution does not mean it has enough dots/stripes to display it fully. Most CRTs could scan resolutions higher than they could fully display.

2048x1536 on a 21" diagonal viewable area is only 121.9 PPI, which is about what LCDs were capable of even back in the late 1990s, and far from the 300+ PPI of today.

>>55236048
Yeah, I have a CRT monitor from 1999 which technically can do 2048x1536 at 72hz, but the dot mask is only fine enough to really show 1600x1200 and even that's pushing it.

Windows 7

Xerox Alto

Symbolics Genera

Firefox OS

palm and webos
heard someone is using open source webos to make newer lune os or something

>>55229097
TempleOS

>>55231684
As if OS/2 and Windows weren't practically the same product, such that programs were binary compatible into the Windows 95 era.

Surface-conduction Electron-emitter displays

inkjet printers

>>55229097
Plan9