Which operating systems have you worked with?

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,

I would prefer if you could separate home and work.

Vaguely remember Commodore, although I did some BASIC with it. After that, it was DOS 3.0, then DOS 5.0, with which I had fun for many years. I skipped through DOS 6.0 all the way to 6.22. After that Win95, Win98 and then WinXP. Then came SUSE, Knoppix, Ubuntu, and then more than 10-15 other Linux distros. Finally, FreeDOS and PC-BSD.

At school, I had the chance of playing with some primitive monster that I cannot name, but basically it was assembly-like thingie called "Learning Computer", where you played with registers like little hamsters.

Finally, work completes the Windows cycle with W2K.

How about you?

Mainframes, punchcards and other evil things also apply.

Mrk

[BlueZannetti]

MrK,

Ok, here goes....

Home: DOS 1.x-6.x, CP/M-85, CP/M-86, Win95/98/XP Pro/XP Media, Linux (many flavors: Knoppix, Suse, Xandros, etc.)

Work: KRONOS, RSX-11, Ultrix-11, PRIMOS, Apple DOS, Mac OS, VMS, DOS 3.x, Win 3.1/95/98/2000/XP, and some other minor ones that escape me at the moment....

A bit of a walk down memory lane...

Blue

[Peter2150]

Hmm

At Home. Everything that officially has been on PC's from the first IBM XT. I guess that would include a lot of the DOS versions and Windows starting at 1.0 up to XP pro SP2 today. Also have had some plays at Vista RC1

At Work Some of the IBM PC stuff, and also worked with Digitial Equipments DEC 10's and Vax/VMS

Pete who may have just dated himself.;D

[Mrkvonic]

Hello grandpas!

[BlueZannetti]

-{ Quote: "Hello grandpas!" }-Not quite yet! I hope! :)

Blue

[Meriadoc]

DOS-11, CP/M, Apple-DOS, VMS, Lisp/Lisp A.I, QDOS, MS-DOS, Commodore, Amiga, Atari, BASIC, Sun, MS-Windows 1.0/2.0/3.0/3.1/NT3.1/95/NT4.0/98/98SE/2000/ME/XP,MCE,64/Vista, MAC, OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, and some forgot I expect.

[bigc73542]

Pretty much all that have been commercially available since the computer was a reality all the way up to Vista Ultimate.


P.S.
I am a grandpa

[lucas1985]

:o :o :o

Me: all Windows versions(except Vista), FreeDOS, various Linux flavours(the noob-friendly ones ;D), Mac OS X.
In the future: xBSD, OS/2, BeOS.

[ccsito]

Mostly work on Mainframe OS systems at work. Control Data MASTER (Multi-Access shared time executive routine), UNISYS OS 2200 and earlier UNIVAC EXEC 8 versions. I took a course on IBM ALC and used the IBM MVS OS. Also took a PC course using the Radio Shack TRS-80 (AKA Trash 80). I have used DOS versions up 6.22 and Windows 3.1, NT, XP versions at work. At home only used DOS 5 and 6 and Windows 3.11/98/XP. I also worked with the Hollerith 80 column punched cards at work and school.

My original training was on Control Data Assembly language (with register, arithmetic controls, macro routines, operators, operands, and address manipulation) via card reader and puncher.
Next to machine language, it provided the most complete control on what executed on the computer. Can you imagine providing each query to the WWW via punched cards?:wacko: ::)

[Ice_Czar]

DOS, Win 3.0, Win9X, W2K, W2K adv server, XP home\pro, W2K3, SUSE Pro, Knoppix(s) (STD ect), and working on learning Ubuntu\Slackware.

Work and home are the same place :P

strangely my experiences with Win 3.0 are recent as I have some rather old software that requires it, experiments to get it to run via VMware are underway, the trick is getting GPIB working

[Alphalutra1]

For Windows:

Windows 3.1, DOS(I think I played some games on it), Windows 95, 98, ME(don't remind me :P ), 2000, XP

For Linux:

Xandros, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse, Slackware, Vector Linux, Debian, and the one I have stayed with - Arch Linux

For BSD:

PC-BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

[WSFuser]

Windows:

95, 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista

Linux:

SuSE 10.0 and 10.1, Kubuntu (Dapper Drake) and Xubuntu (Edgy Eft), Xandros 3.0, Knoppix (Live CD)

Mac:

Mac OS 9.0

[farmerlee]

Started out with ms-dos 5-6 and the good old powermenu.
The moved onto microsoft windows 3.1 . Over the years i have progressed thru win95, win98, win98se, winme, win2000 and winxp. These days i mainly use windows server 2003 which i have converted to a desktop setup. Win2003 seems to run a lot better compared to xp, although it does limit the software i can use.

[MikeNash]

Hi Mrk,

Home:

ZX Spectrum 48k, 128k, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga 500 (mostly modified with various add ons). BBC Model B, Acorn Achimedes and An old Apple II for about 10 minutes. Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP.

Work:

Dos 4.x onwards, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 3.5.1, NT4, XP, 2000, 2003. Various Linux including Debian, Redhat/Fedora Core, IPCop and a couple of specialised Asterisk builds plus looked at knoppix/ubuntu.. DEC Alpha.

I think that's everything..

[Nick Rhodes]

I learnt *nix on the Minix OS at Uni, moving onto Slackware. I've written some simple OpenGL, network code, decent parsers in C/C++ whilst at Uni (3 years worth).
HP Unix mainframe, I had to do some DB++ stuff - ouchy hard only a few months.
Also on the same Main frame I had a play at some multi threading code (rather hard) which was a simulator of a flight control system which was part of a research project funded by the RAF, just bug fixing for a few months.
I've used every incarnation of windows from win95 onwards daily for mostly web (asp and .net) and sql 7/2k/2005 (got an MCE in 2005 and the odd bit of VB (7 years solid windows platform programming experience now).

I have played with BBC B, Archimedies, C64, Amiga OS workbench 2 and 3, plus various other things (I remember seeing BEOS at Cebit and Nextstep), but all of these I have not done any serious work with.

[Pedro]

I'm surprised to see references to Commodore. That's from back when i was a boy, i think it was PC 10 or something (my memory isn't that great, and i didn't spend 1/20th of the time i spend with my pc now, football of course:) )

I didn't realize Commodore was popular.:thumb:
I remember it being green and black, it could be from that net that covered the screen lol! Where i got my first virus, ping-pong or something, that dragged the computer and displayed a ping-pong ball of course! Game on anyway (Leisure Suit Larry 1 to those that remember)

Vaguely i remember messing with DOS, win3.0., 3.1 (i think), Win95, 98, XP.

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
Don't wish to go much offtopic, but this demands a comment. Larry 1 (through 7), total classics!
Mrk

[Capp]

Dos 6, Windows 95, 98/SE, ME, NT desktop/server, 2000 desktop/server, XP home/pro, 2003 server R1-R2, RedHat 9.0, Suse, Fedora Core, knoppix, Nas Lite+, Mac OS X and some other versions of Mac I can't recall.

That's all I can think of right now. Not much experience with Linux distros, but working on it :)

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
I forgot to add Win 3.x, but I'm not sure if it's really an OS per se.
Never worked with the original NT, come to think of it.
Mrk

[lodore]

95, windows ME UGH! Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows NT, lots of manual driver installs on that one.

[TOMxEU]

G, I wonder when you people had the time to try out all those OS? http://www.wilderssecurity.com/images/smilies/blink.gif
I have never used anything but Windows, since there no other real OS, except MAC. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
My OS path started with 95, followed by 98, ME, XP and I ended up with Vista Ultimate.
I never installed 95, 98 a few times, ME a little more, XP about 200 times & Vista 10 times.

[phasechange]

I'll edited Mr Blues list :D to apply to me:

Home: DOS 1.x-6.x, CP/M-85, CP/M-86, Win95/98/SE/XP Pro, Mac OS (the last Apple I used was twin floppy based), Linux (many flavors: Slackware (my 1st Linux), Red Hat, Mandrake (mandriva now), Ubuntu [my favourite] etc.), as well as various 8 bit OSs often with Microsoft BASIC or similar as a shell (Oric1, Atari 130XE, ZX81, Spectrum).

University: MS DOS 3.1 (DOS 4 at home), PRIMOS, Apollo/Domain (first GUI programming was X11 on this)

Work: PC DOS up to 7, OS/2 2.0, 2.1, 3.0), VMS, Win 3.11/2000/XP, AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, and Solaris. My favourites from this list are Appollo/Domain, OS/2, HP-UX, and Solaris.

My first IBM Compatible was a Compaq luggable. My first home computer was a 1kB of RAM machine expanded to 16kB (current PC is 2GB).

I don't work in communications not IT now so my OS experience isn't going to change much now and my memory ain't perfect either ;D

Phasechange

[ThunderZ]

98, 98SE, ME (what a joke}, 2k, XP Pro, a couple different MS Server Editions, a short stint with Suse, run from CD Ubuntu. Have the final RC of Vista setting on DVD (just so I can say I have it 8) ) Running away from the final release of Vista as fast as I can. ;D

[ccsito]

-{ Quote: "Hello,
Don't wish to go much offtopic, but this demands a comment. Larry 1 (through 7), total classics!
Mrk" }-

I always used the cheat sheets to see all possible scenarios as you move the character around the game. :P

[TNT]

Work: Windows NT 4, Linux (various distros), Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, OpenBSD, Solaris

Home: Texas Instrument's TI-99 4/A Basic, Amiga Workbench, DOS (some versions, can't remember exactly all of them), Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Linux (various), OpenBSD, Mac, Windows 2000, Windows XP

[iceni60]

-{ Quote: "I have never used anything but Windows, since there no other real OS, except MAC." }-nice one lol

i've never worked with anything. i used some of the old spectrums, macs (i remember playing around with the spray paint thing) and the vic20, C64, BBC acorn and an amstrad. then stopped using computers until xp, then i stopped using that and now just run stable and secure os's like linux and i've just started using freebsd which is really, really good 8) 8) i really like it ;D

[nadirah]

Honestly, I've worked on Windows 98 and Windows XP only. :D
First computer- Windows 98
Second computer- Windows XP
That's all. I used a Mac in my school before, ugh that was a terrible experience, too used to working with Windows.

Not funny. When I got my first computer I knew nuts about computers, my parents too. My parents bought the computer even though all of us were computer illiterate. That first computer was a vicious struggle for us, spyware and other forms of malware bogged it down like hell. Can't be helped, no one in my family knew anything about all those stuff at that time. The day my cousin taught me about spyware was the day my true computing adventure started. From then on, I was determined to take charge of my computing life once and for all. All it took was a simple internet search and I landed in this forum. I don't have any formal education in computers, what I know is simply self-learned.

This forum saved my life. :thumb:

[Meriadoc]

remembering a few more...
Home we also had a TI99 4/A with extended BASIC - 64k, still got it somewhere,
also used a Spectrum ZX81, turned it into a robot with the help of Lego, and a BBC model B/Master.
Work TI, IBM, UNIX.

[hossie]

Hi,

well it seems that I m among the people who have used almost all OS. I have 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP ,

Red hat, fedora

going to use Ubuntu , I dont know how its going to be.

[nigglesnush85]

Hello,
Started on the Amiga then to, win 95,98,2000,ME(ARGHHHH)XP home and pro Played around with some DOS cant remember what though,
Tried Knoppix, didn't want to work though. might try it again though.

[Longboard]

whoo: thats a LOT of gathered expertise :)
I in awe of you all.
Home & work: self employed, self taught enduser.

Last code I wrote was Fortran on punch cards ;D : when I started engineering.
Do loops still make me shiver.
Went in different direction after that.

Commodore with cassettes: and dot matrix printers, god knows where that box is now.

Mac Classic: loved it: so intuitive, then everything fell in heap and had to go to PCs Win 3/DOS, LOL
Still Have a 386 laptop on the shelf here somewhere.
Since then W95 > 98 > XP

Looking to a Linux future: trying Ubuntu first. (Disciple of MrK)

[lucas1985]

The Amiga is dead. Long live the Amiga! (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36685)

[Ice_Czar]

a few of these OSs Ive needed to look up ;D
maybe we should start a list of OSs that havent been mentioned

didnt see anyone say IRIX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX)
(at one point came damn close to getting an Octane)

[ErikAlbert]

In the past :
1. DOS
2. Windows 95
3. Windows 2000 Pro SP4

Nowadays :
4. Windows XP Pro SP2

In the future :
5. WinVISTA
6. WinLINUX ;D

I always buy a new OS, when I buy a new computer. :)

[Demoras]

Hmmm...

I've used DOS (not sure what version), Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenSUSE 10.2 and Fedora Core 6.

I once tried working with a Sinclair and a Joyce computer, but I didn't understand it at all. I was too young anyway, I don't think I even knew the alphabet back then.

I'm currently running Windows XP, but I plan to install Fedora Core 6 on my other drive.

[como212]

win 3.1
win 95
win 98
and now win xp.

[tlu]

TI99 4A, MSDOS (various versions), DRDOS, Windows 3.1, OS/2 (various versions), Windows NT/2000/XP, Knoppix, Suse Linux (various versions), Ubuntu Linux (Dapper, Edgy).
In the future: Vista? Probably not. - Ubuntu (with XP running in VMWare Server): definitely!