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Me too. Honestly I was vibing on nostalgia for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)

yeah, same here, I was like "wow what an interesting side to their business, a whole operating system intended to serve public and academic libraries!"

Is it not? You link the "library os" and you no longer need an os (when running in a supervisor) IIUC.

I think parent poster was referring to an actual library, i.e. where you would borrow books.

That's also what I thought this was, and came to the comments expecting to see something neat about why libraries might need bespoke operating systems.

Ah right! Yeah, I did think that too..., like locked down so random patrons couldn't do this or that. I was thinking that was quite a pivot for MS though too...