Santarem OS

Santarem OS, aka Santarém OS, is a Never Released OS, launched in Portugal as a graphical shell for PC-DOS. They began OS Experients in 1974, shortly after the transition from Dictatorship to Democracy. 
== SANTARÉM OS HISTORY ==
=== Experiments ===
In January 1974, 3 months before the Carnation Revolution, Santarém OS began experiments as "S-OS" for the Altair 8800. After around 1 month, on Febuary, the CEO got arrested for "being aganist propaganda". On April 25th 1974, a bit after the Carnation Revolution, the CEO Got bailed out of jail alongside other pepole that were arrested unfairly during Estado Novo.
In 1980, they gave up on the S-OS until they saw the announcement of the IBM PC and PC-DOS. The S-OS Development Team saw it as a opportunity for the S-OS Project. In 1981, after the IBM PC Launched, they went straight to America and bought a IBM PC. Then they went back to Portugal. The HQ, wich was on the Santarém City was being built. Shortly after they began re-construction, they renamed it to Santarém OS. They made it as a GUI Interface for PC-DOS.
== PC-DOS GUI Release and expansion into the 1980s ==
The First version was Black and White. It came with a Word Processor, a Painting application and a Directory Explorer. It was released in July 1982.
Shortly after, they sold it. They managed to sell 10k Copies between the Version 1 and Version 2 timeframe (1 year). 
In July 1983, they began making a better GUI. It now supported MS-DOS and PC-DOS 2.00. It started to support 4-bit Grayscale. They managed to get a bootscreen, as the original version did not have any. In August, development ended for Version 2.0. It sold around 5k more copies than Version 1.
In May 1984, version 3 came alongside Version 2.1. Version 3 supported 4-bit Color Technology, and Version 2.1 had bugfixes for Version 2.0. They tried making concepts to make a newer OS that supported on its own, kind of like Windows NT, but it was cancelled. In the start of the Summer of 1985, they released Santarém OS 4.0. It supported a similar color technology to the NES. It added many apps, like a game, a suite of Workstation applications and more.
Santarém OS 5.0 included TRSDOS Support.
They went on a hiatus for a while, until in October 1986, they released Santarém OS 6. It competed aganist Apple System 3, Windows 1.03 and Sviger. It added support for newer hardware, such as the Intel 80386 Microprocesor. It supported 16-bit Color.
Santarém OS Got a Suite of applications as a separate app. It had a Word Processor, a Pro Drawing app, a Slideshow app, and a Spreadsheet program. In 1988, Santarém OS 7 released, and it became a success. 500k copies were sold in the first 2 weeks alone. It was the first release to get a service release, releasing in Febuary 1989. Santarém OS 7 supported sound, and was the first one to have 3 separate versions: Workstation, Home and Server. It was also during this time that Santarém OS began worldwide sells
With the Service Release, in December of 1989, Versions 3 and prior became obsolete.
== EARLY 1990s AND TRANSITION FROM DOS TO STANDALONE ==
In 1990, Santarém OS's development team decided to re-work on the Standalone OS Project. With DL's PowerOS's recent release, Santarém OS had to think fast. Eventually, they released Santarém OS 7.1 in November 1990, wich was the last DOS Version. It had a similar GUI to the Windows 3.1s.
Shortly after its release, Version 4 became obsolete.
In May of 1991, Santarém OS 8 began development, as "Emerald". It was the first version to have a public Beta, showcased at the Santarém OS Conference of 1991, wich it happen in October of 1991. In November, Emerald got renamed to Santarém OS 8. Then, in January 1992, it got into RC. It had bugs, and it needed a better name. So they patched by RC3 and renamed to Santarém OS 92 in RC3.1. Then it released. It was unpopular among home users, but extremely Popular for Business users. So popular, in fact, that they make commercials aiming at business.
They realized that computers weren't advanced enough to run the standalone tech, so they released a lightweight version, called Santarém OS Lite(Late 1992).Then, in 1993, they began working on Santarém OS Server and Santarém OS 9. They had to compete with DL's PowerOS, Mac OS 7, Windows 3.1 and its NT Version, OS/2, and the recently released Slackware. They eventually take a look at Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7, and took some features and ported. They eventually added support for some Windows Programs, lke OS/2. In August, they tested 10 copies of Windows 3.1 and Nt 3.1 software, and 7 of them worked. Santarém OS 9 and Server were at BETA1. The Server Development Team included Netscape preinstalled with Server, and later, the OS 9 developer team followed suite. More and more PCs became more advanced, making the development easier.
In January 1994, Santarém OS 9 and Server went onto BETA2. Then, at march, it went onto RC, and in May 8th of 1994, it arrived to manufracters, and 2 months later, on July 4th, it went on sale. Sales were boosted and were like a quarter of Windows 95 did in their first 4 days. A Week after, Server released. Within that, Santarém OS 9 reached 1 Million sales as a standalone OS.
Santarém OS 9 was the first one to introduce a shutdown sequence, wich is a animation under the (instrumental)Portuguese Anthem, "A Portuguesa".
The Shutdown sequence was the OS normally shutting down, then followed by a European Map zooming to the Iberian Peninsula. the Iberian countries (Portugal, Spain, Andorra) turn into Green, Red and yellow, repsectively, then they convert to make the Portuguese flag. Then, it turned into the Portuguese flag, in wich it turned into a flag-map of Portugal, in wich it turned into the districts. After that, the screen and all districts(exept Santarém) turned blank and the Santarém map zoomed and turned back in, with the name "Santarém OS by the Department for Operating Systems in Portugal" with the "It's now safe to turn off your computer" in blue text on a white screen. The Copyright date was "1974, 1980, 1982-1994" in blue text.
It can remind of the RTP1(Called RTP Canal 1 during the time) Sign-off sequences, mostly from 1990-1996 or 1996-98. It means that there is no shutdown sound by default. The Anthem Sequence is on by default, but can be turned off in "Definições - Energia" (Settings - Energy)
== 1995 ==
With the new year of 1995, the tech industry was booming. With the release of Mac OS 7.5 earlier in 1994, PowerOS 95 and DL PowerOS 2.0, Slackware 3.0 and the future release of Windows 95 and Red Hat Linux, Santarém OS Team realized that they needed to work on a version. With the booming success of Sviger 9a and 9b, they needed to work. First they ended support for versions 6.0 and earlier. They worked on a project, named after a county in Porto. They codenamed it "Felgueiras". Alpha came in Febuary 1995. They added a new browser. Netscape was still on the system as a optional compoment for Post-Installation. The browser was named "Discover the Web" in the alpha phase. In Beta 1, the early beta was mostly on GUI Changes. The browser changed to just "Discover". In Beta 2, they named it "Discoveries" and the OS Changed to "Santarém OS EV (Santarém OS Event)". Then, in July, RC Stage came out. Public Candidate release hyped a lot of portuguese pepole, aswell as some Angolan, Brazilian and Spanish pepole. Then it got released as "Santarém OS 95". The sign-off sequence was off by default in this version.
== Late 1990s ==
Beginning in 1996, due to the release of Windows 95, Santarém OS's marketshare began declining. But it didn't mean that the operating system didnt end! Version 97 was released in 1997, Version 98 in 1998. Santarém OS's marketshare got a little boost thanks to the release of Windows ME, which was a failure.
== Early 2000s and the rise of Windows XP and MacOS X ==
After the boost, MacOS X Cheetah got released. It didn't cause major impact to Santarém OS's marketshare, since Windows was ahead of them anyway. In late 2001 however, Windows XP got released. Many users began ditching their older OSES (like Windows 95, 98, 2000, Mac OS, etc) to Windows XP. Santarém OS, in response, they made a ui similar to XP, but with some changes. It didn't really matter. By 2003, Santarém OS's marketshare in Portugal was about 17%, and 0.4% in the World. Santarém OS also began getting funding from other portuguese companies, including Pingo Doce, Impresa, RTP and a few others.
== Mid 2000s: The beginning of Frutiger Aero in Santarém OS and purchase by Impresa ==
In the mid 2000s, Santarém OS began adding Frutiger Aero elements. Versions released between 2005 and 2013 had Frutiger Aero elements thrown into the OS. This is where Santarém OS began having a few changes: The OS was bought by Impresa, the company that owns SIC, Expresso and other major Portuguese stuff. Impresa really wants Santarém OS to be the first OS in Portugal. They began making more and more advertisings. They renamed Santarém OS Server to "Santarém S-Servidor" (Santarém S-Server), added more languages like Korean, Greek and Chinese. Impresa also did some other stuff to the OS. They improved the logo, and it comes in different colors (packaging only). 
In 2008, Santarém OS got a big boost, with Santarém OS 15 (Aka Santarém OS 2008). It sold 3 million copies in the first week! 
In 2009, there were rumours about a new version being released. It had a better interface. Eventually, Version 2009 (Santarém OS 15.5). Any version released before 1998 ended support on that year. 
== Early 2010s: Modernization and the release of LeiriaOS ==
In 2010, Santarém Tech LLC and Impresa decided to add a spinoff the OS. Based off of Santarém OS 2001, Santarém OS's Spinoff: LeiriaOS is released, for low-end computers. Even though the OS seemed like something from 2002, it had full support for stuff that Santarém OS had. It could run on any computer released since 1999. It could run on 256MB RAM and 4GB Storage. LeiriaOS's releases aren't very consistent, making the timeline between OSES slow. 
LeiriaOS 1 was released in, well, April 2010.
LeiriaOS 1x family's latest version was released in July 2016, ending with LeiriaOS 1.8
LeiriaOS 2 was released in 2013, while LeiriaOS 2x family's latest was released in December 2016, with LeiriaOS 2.9.
LeiriaOS 3 was released in 2017, overhauling the system. Latest released in July 2021.
LeiriaOS 4 was released in 2019, with its latest version (4.8) in August 2023. A new version is planned (LeiriaOS 4.9, scheduled for January 2025).
Impresa also began making DOS-Shell versions open-source, making custom builds easier to make. By 2012, Santarém OS 1-4 were open source.
== Gallery ==
File:Santarem OS Logo 2013.png|Logo (2013)
File:Santarem OS Logo 2013 with slogan.png|Logo with Slogan (2013) (Translation: "The Portuguese Culture, Worldwide")
File:S-OS Boot 1982.png|Bootscreen (Version 1.0)
File:Desktop 1.png|Desktop (Version 17)
File:Santarém Tech LLC.png|Santarém Tech (Logo, 2012) (The company who made the OS)
File:Santarém Tech LLC Slogan.png|Alternate version of the Santarém LLC 2012 logo, with slogan (Translation: "The future, is with us.")
File:Santarém OS Logo (1995).png|Logo (1995-2001)
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