Your O/S History ?

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Just curious what operating systems people out there have used/installed over there years (or months/weeks/days!?) of computing, and which they thought was the best?

Mine are (in no order) :

Win 3.11
Win 95
Win 95b
Win 98
Win 98 SE
Win M.E. (YECK! die!)
Win NT 4
Win 2000 Pro
Win XP Pro (currently installed)
RedHat 7.0
RedHat 7.3
Mandrake 8.0
Mandrake 8.1 Beta
Mandrake 8.1
Mandrake 8.2
Gentoo Linux
NetBSD
Slackware Linux 8.1
FreeBSD

I'm sure there's more, just can't remember right now, Some operating systems i've never owned and would like to try are Windows 1/1.01 and Windows Memphis (Win97)
My personal fav has to be Slackware, but for functionality, windows wins hands down, so XP has to be the best o/s ive used.
 
You never ran an Apple OS (I miss my Apple IIGS).. ? =]
 
in order

Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows XP Pro (runing on it right now :))

and the soon to come list:

Mandrake 9.0
Red Hat 8.0 (maybe)
 
I've never ran an apple o/s, the first family PC was almost an apple but we opted for a 100mhz 8mb 486 instead :p

I've used apple o/s before, just never had one installed (it would prove quite a challenge on a PC for a start :p ) but i have vowed that my next box will be some form of mac!
 
My Apple IIGS was a ~16MHz, zooooooom!
 
I used to have this flying game (WWII fighter game) for it. Used to kick some butt on that game. Tons of fun! =)
 
I think this is all of them...

DOS 6.22
Win 3.1
Win 3.11
Win 95
Win 95b
Win 98
Win 98 SE
Win ME
Win NT 3.5
Win NT 4 (Server and Workstation)
Win 2000 Pro
Win 2000 Server
Win 2000 Advanced Server
Win XP Home
Win XP Pro
RedHat 7.3

Non-PC (but still a computer... sorta)

Mac OS 9.2.2
Mac OS 10.2

WOW! I think I just saw my life flash before my eyes!
 
Excellent.
DoomII/Quake1/Duke3D for me on the 486 :D
 
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
RedHat v??
Windows 2000
Windows XP

MacOS 8
MacOS 9
MacOS 10.1

BeOS (personal edition)

Windows has my vote. Especially XP! :D
 
heh, it seems everyones used redhat at some point or another :)
 
I did touch Red Hat Linux 6.5 once on a friends computer, and I got confused when I first saw it.
 
i think redhats just a name that people atuomatically assocciate with linux, which is either good marketing on RedHat's behalf, or bad marketing on other ditro's behalf (altho other's dont "market" there distro as such)
 
true, when I first heard of Linux, all I heard about was Red Hat, but last year (or was it 2 years ago) is when I heard there was different linuxes out there besides Red Hat.
 
Ericsson Step One (don't remember what the OS was called)
Win 3.0
Win 3.1
Win 3.11
Win 95 (on a 386DX33 first!!!)
Win 95b
Win 98
Win 98 SE
Win ME (two weeks *kicked*)
Win 2000 AS (very brief)
Win 2000 Pro
Win XP Pro (now)
 
In Order:

Mac OS 7.5
Mac OS 8.5-8.6 (currently running)
Windows 98 (currently running)
Windows XP (currently running)
Mandrake Linux (currently running)
Debian Linux
Slackware Linux (currently running)
Lycorice Linux
 
Ooooh back in the mists of time
80's

Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81

BBC Model B Friends of mine had Dragons &
BBC Model B + Tube commodores! Remember those?
BBC Compact

90's

PC 386 MSDOS 5
PC 486 MSDOS 6
PC PI 120 Win 3.1
PC PI 120 Win 95
PC PII 333 Win 95

00's

PC PIV 1800 XPH
 
used some dos thing and norton back in russia :)

win 95
win98
winme
win xp

running ME and XP pro now.
 
Win 3.1
NT 3.5
NT 4.0
Win 95
Win 98
Win 98 SE
Win 2000
Win Advanced Server
Windows Whistler
Windows XP (Currently using)

oops almost forgot
Unix
 
i've never tryed anything except windows. i think i should try getting some of those other things and installing them on my old pc
 

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