The Taos Operating System (1991)

Around 1999-2000 the Tao operating system was licensed by Amiga Inc. and distributed as "Amiga Anywhere".

This recent Ars Technica article has more details and screenshots:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/a-history-of-the-ami...

I remember reading (and marvelling) about TaOS and Transputers when I read an article about it in UK’s Edge gaming magazine (I am not nor ever was a gamer, but somehow the technology fascinated me) back in 1992 or 1993. I still have the complete first year of that magazine (which began by reviewing the technology of the then-upcoming 3DO). Great memories.

Previously discussed here in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

The top comment is from an ex-employee, with great background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159

Reading about nodes bootstrapped over serial connections, transparently running JVMs, makes me happy and sorta wish it were a more popular paradigm.

Related:

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/amigade.html

Decent idea, but didn't come to much.

Am I the only one who sees the similarity between the Apple requirements of shipping bitcode, the LLVM intermediate representation of your app, and the Taos method of having the VP2 code turned into the VP1 native code, as a way of having portability?

It's amazing how many alternative computing platforms started and died in the 90s.