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I don’t know why the author didn’t use horizontal timelines, which is the normal convention with the length of boxes representing the full lifespan of those platforms. So IMHO the OS DNA flowchart is an interesting idea, but it needs to be executed better. And I find it kind of unforgivable that one of the most significant sharing of DNS is between windows and OS/2 (beyond DOS), which doesn’t get represented at all. To mix it with linux is misleading at best, but even if we allow that the author looses credibility by ignoring the DNA contributions from that lineage into both macos and windows. Ok, I can give you that, but the absence of BSDs is not excusable by the same logic. However, VMS proper has largely been discontinued today, and now stands as more of a legacy relic of a bygone era (much like ArcaOS and OS/2) than a popular OS. Interesting is the inclusion of VMS, however it’s design similarities to Windows NT are well documented. Sure, AmigaOS is a minor exception, given it is still in development, but most of these systems are largely irrelevant today, and didn’t really share their OS DNA outside of their respective brands. Thinks like AmigaOS, Atari TOS, and RiscOS didn’t really become a thing until the late 80’s and early 90’s, and much of their legacy is left dead in the water, with little relevance to modern day technologies. It wasn’t until the 16-bit era that microcomputer OSes became more than a shell for BASIC. Most 8 bit micros ran BASIC, which was both the primary programming language, and the OS. Also, despite their great pioneering work in the hardware field, most 8-bit micro’s didn’t run any sort of significant operating system.