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I checked after posting and I was partly wrong! Sorry!

The Psion Series 3 range -- 3, 3A, 3C and 3MX -- ran SIBO, later renamed EPOC, later renamed EPOC16, a multitasking GUI OS written for 8086.

SIBO = SIxteen Bit Organizer. Not OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser#Subsequent_han...

The Psion 5 range ran the later and largely unrelated EPOC32, a native ARM OS written in C++ which later became Symbian.

But SIBO did not become Symbian. EPOC 5, later EPOS32, did.

There was even more renaming than I realised.



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