Your O/S History ?

PC 286 DOS/Deskmate
PC 486 Windows 3.1, 3.11, DOS, Slackware
PC P120 Windows 3.11, Windows 95, FreeBSD, Slackware
PC K6-450 Windows 98, SE, Redhat, Mandrake, BeOS
PC 1600+ Windows XP Pro, Redhat (under xp via vmware), Win2k Adv. Server
 
Win95 & B for a couple years
Win98 for a short time, dual boot with Redhat Linux
WinNT server and workstation & dual boot with redhat
WinME, Short period of time
Win2k Pro for a good while & dual boot mandrake
WinXP
 
MS Windows 95
MS Windows 98
MS Windows 98 SE
MS Windows Me
MS Windows XP HE, and Linux SuSe on server
 
Commodore 128
Tandy 1000SX MSDOS2.1
Amiga A1000
Amiga A500
Apple IIGS
Amiga A2000HD
Mac SE30
Amiga A1200 -
Mac IIfx - last installed OS System 7.5.5
Leading Edge pc 80386-20sx/Win3.1
First DIY pc AMD 80386-40DX/Win3.1
Acer 80486-DX2 66/Win3.1->Win95
DIY P-90/Win95 and Slackware Linux 3.3
DIY P150/Win95
DIY P200MMX/Win95

From 1997, I go multiple pc's:

Win98SE/Mandrake 6.0

W2k Pro/Mandrake 7.0/SuSE 7.1
Win XP Pro/Win XP Home/SuSE7.1

Whoops. I forgot to add the lone Mac: G4-400 with MacOS 9.0.4
 
Here are the PC operating systems I have used in my short life :)

Windows 95 A
Windows 95 B
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME <-- p00! :mad:
Windows 2000 <-- Excellent! :cool:
Windows Whistler Beta 2679
Windows XP Pro (Running Now) <--- W|KKD :cool:
Slackware Linux (Running Now) <--- WoW :eek:
SuSe Linux 8.0 Professional (Running Now)
 
Originally posted by xinside
I never saw the point in dual booting heh

I only had one PC at the time and wanted to try Linux out.
 
Ah, knew there was ones i'd forgot

DOS 6.22
Whistler / XP Build 2505
and some form of LOAF, cant remember which :)
 
Microsoft's Line-up
DOS 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 95b
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP Professional

Linux Distros
Redhat Linux 6.x
Mandrake Linux 8.2
Mandrake Linux 9.0
Lycoris Desktop/LX (Amethyst)
Slackware Linux 8.1

Others
BeOS
MinuetOS (fits on a single floppy)

Windows XP wins hands down
I'm going to give Slackware a try when I have some free time.

EDIT: Added Slackware to the list. It's now my favorite Linux distro :)
 
and i just installed Mandrake 9 on my old computer.


WOW

It's very nice, I add Mandrake 9 to the list
 
Order Of My Primary Computer:
MacOS 6.0
MacOS 7.5
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows XP Pro

Other OSes Used: RedHat Linux, Debian Linux, Lycoris Linux, MacOS 8.5

JJB
 
Not in chronological order... but, in order of my liking...

:eek: (I was amazed!)
Sinclair (built from kit... 2k! with cassette for storage)
Timex-Sinclair (almost same as above... 100 bucks in '81)

:confused: (Never liked these... talk about crash city!)
Windows 3.0 & 3.1

:) (OK, I guess)
DOS 3 thru 6.2
Windows 95B
Windows 98SE
Mac OS7 thru 9.1
Mac OSX (Current)

:p (Cool as grits!... probably had the most fun on the 64))
Commodore 64
Texas Instruments TI-something or another
Mac OS9.2 (Current)

:D (So far, so good!)
Windows XP Home(Current)
 
Dos 6
Win 3.1
Win 3.11
Win 95
Win 95b
Win 98
Win 98 SE
Win M.E. (only for a month)
Win NT 4
Win 2000 Pro (running)
Win 2000 Server
Win 2000 Adv. Server
Win XP Pro (running)
RedHat 7.2 (running)
 
More of a owned/installed than just installed, but..
In order owned (best I can remember):
*Commodore 64 w/ Commodore BASIC
Tandy 1000 (286 equiv?) w/ MS-DOS 3.0
*Commodore 128 w/ BASIC
*Amiga 500 w/ AmigaDos
Mac Plus w/ MacOS 6.03
White box 386/16 w/ MS-DOS 5.0
White Box 486/20 w MS-DOS 6.0
*KayPro 10 (portable! yeah right) w/ CP/M
Packard Bell P-100 w/ Win95b
Toshiba 486/12 laptop w/Win95b
Dell Dimension PII-233 w/ Win98se
*Dell Latitute PIIm-266 laptop w/Win98se
*White Box AMD 1GHz w/WinXP Pro (current)
*Macintosh LC 580 w/ MacOS 7.6.1 (picked up for $12 last week :p )

(*=still own and it works!)

Note, you'll see a lacking of win3.x and nt/2k.. there's a reason for that :D

-JG
 

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