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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: Boudicca on March 29, 2010, 07:48:19 PM
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10. VMS
9. DR Concurrent/Multi-User Dos
8. Windows XP
7. Amiga OS 3.9 (Can't say 4 never seen it live)
6. Unix System V
4. Mac OSX
3. Debian (Ubuntu or Debian itself I use all the time these days)
2. CP/m (all flavours including CP/m 86)
1. Windows 2003 R2 (work with it every day)
Sorry no. AROS or other as I have never used them in anger.
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Have you used those OSs? It really depends on what your criteria are. If you are talking about usability today or about historical significance. CP/M has tremendous historic significance but not much usability in 2010...
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6) AmigaOS 3.9
5) BeOS/Haiku
4) Windows XP
3) Linux w/KDE Window Manager (a "good distro" with package management)
2) Windows 7
1) MacOS
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Not really related but here are the top OS's that visit my site... I get about 15000 people visit the site a month. The Amiga OS is amongst the 'unknown'
1 Win XP
2 Win NT
3 Unknown
4 Linux
5 Vista
6 Mac OSX
7 Win 2003
8 Mac 68K
9 Win 2000
10 Mac Power PC
11 Win 98
12 FreeBSD
13 Win
14 Win95
15 Win XP64
16 OS/2
17 SunOS
18 Win 3.1
scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com
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gosh....
10. Amiga OS 3.x
9. AS/400 :p
4-8... dunno really
3 Windows 7
2. Solaris
1. Mac OS X
in order of stability :/
Tom UK
PS... hard - very hard choise....
2. Mac OS X
1. Solaris
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Top 10 in my book and yes, I still use ALL of them 'cept IBM DOS to this day.
1. Mac OSX
2. MorphOS (that may surpass OSX for me now that it runs on MacMini)
3. AmigaOS 3.9
3. AmigaOS 3.1
4. Mac OS9
5. AmigaOS 1.3
6. Atari ST TOS 1.04 and beyond
7. Commodore 64 Basic/JiffyDOS/GEOS
8. AtariDOS 2.5
9. TRS-DOS
10. IBM DOS/MSDOS
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9. AS/400 :p
You mean OS/400 of course? :-) Midrange forever!!!
(Well, OK, maybe not, but RPG kinda rocks in a bizarre way.. )
desiv
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Have you used those OSs?
Yes....All of them (as of part of my job for many of them)...ages me slightly ;)
10. VMS (Animal Feeds Software Development)
9. DR Concurrent/Multi-User Dos (Weighing systems software dev)
8. Windows XP (my job now systems admin)
7. Amiga OS 3.9 (Can't say 4 never seen it live)
6. Unix System V (Process control/weighing)
4. Mac OSX (Fun)
3. Debian (Ubuntu or Debian itself I use all the time these days)
2. CP/m (all flavours including CP/m 86)....Again animal feeds systems.
1. Windows 2003 R2 (work with it every day)
I didn't include others I've worked on , RSX (Pile of pooh), Xenix (fun but tosh), MSDOS 1 to 6.22 gave me my career a start but stopped my development side by Windows 95 (wasn't any good with Objects, only in recent years have I started to get my head round them).
Also didn't include purely rom bases OS's i.e Vic20/Pet and 64 Basic was good for teaching me basic in the first place.
Top 10 Crap Os's are
10. RSX
9. Xenix
8. OS Warp
7. OS/VS1 (But to be honest this was the first true OS I had ever seen and came on a handy 8inch Floppy inserted into a box the twice the size of a large filing cabinet)
6. Windows 3.1 (not really an OS i know)
5. Gem (Same again I know its not an OS)
4. Novell Netware
3. Kickstart 1.2 (buggiest thing I've ever seen Guru'ed me to give up and stuck to play games)
2. Solaris 2 onwards....could they have just stuck to system V and not mucked it up
1. Windows 2000 (Without exception the most unstable / Vunerable / worst OS I've ever seen and we still use it.....dam those tie in contracts)
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Top 10 in my book and yes, I still use ALL of them 'cept IBM DOS to this day.
1. Mac OSX
2. MorphOS (that may surpass OSX for me now that it runs on MacMini)
3. AmigaOS 3.9
3. AmigaOS 3.1
4. Mac OS9
5. AmigaOS 1.3
6. Atari ST TOS 1.04 and beyond
7. Commodore 64 Basic/JiffyDOS/GEOS
8. AtariDOS 2.5
9. TRS-DOS
10. IBM DOS
Let go of the hate...
Regardless of the measurement, eight out of your 10 picks are inferior to WinXP (or Win7)...
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Let go of the hate...
Regardless of the measurement, eight out of your 10 picks are inferior to WinXP (or Win7)...
8 out if 10 of weren't even competitors or even still being sold to compare.
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Top 10 Crap Os's are
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1. Windows 2000 (Without exception the most unstable / Vunerable / worst OS I've ever seen and we still us it.....dam those tie in contracts)
I'm quite surprised at this one. I had a Windows 2K machine that was up for months on end (it only went down due to a power cut). I've always found it pretty stable in the past.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Windows ME? :D
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Ummm, it's not hate. It's reality. The topic asked a very simple question and I answered it. In my world, there ARE alternatives to M$ products and a majority of my computing life since the late 70's, I have purposely avoided the use of them. I've used 3.1 through Win2000 and XP a little bit. No need to get into all the reasons why I don't care for 'em as I will never be "converted". Fact is, just because something exists and it's popular, doesn't mean *I* need or would want to roam with the herd all the time ;)
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8 out if 10 of weren't even competitors or even still being sold to compare.
Not sure of your point, but a top 10 OS list with no Microsoft contribution present is silly.
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This is my list of top ten OSes:
1- OS/400
2- BeOS
3- Coherent
4- AmigaOS 3.1
5- AmigaOS 3.9
6- Windows XP Embedded
7- QNX
8- OS/2 4
9- PTS-DOS
10- Solaris
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Let go of the hate...
Regardless of the measurement, eight out of your 10 picks are inferior to WinXP (or Win7)...
Save2600?? Are you attempting to have your OWN thoughts and preferences again??? :griping:
Please remain where you are.. The thought police will be there soon and you will be taken for reprogramming...
Resistance is futile..
desiv
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I'm quite surprised at this one. I had a Windows 2K machine that was up for months on end (it only went down due to a power cut). I've always found it pretty stable in the past.
NT4 was up for years on end, but 2k immediately you installed anything on top IIS, Exchange, SQL etc, those dodgy 16 bit apps that wouldn't die, down it would go. U could say it was the software on top but, whats the point of a platform that self destructs when you connect any number of users greater than 10 to it. AD was great, IRQ not Less than or equal BSOD was a common one, not until driver signing did we get away from that. Also the Chkdsk bug that destroyed you NTFS permissions was fun too. ;)
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Ummm, it's not hate. It's reality. The topic asked a very simple question and I answered it. In my world, there ARE alternatives to M$ products and a majority of my computing life since the late 70's, I have purposely avoided the use of them. I've used 3.1 through Win2000 and XP a little bit. No need to get into all the reasons why I don't care for 'em as I will never be "converted". Fact is, just because something exists and it's popular, doesn't mean *I* need or would want to roam with the herd all the time ;)
Maybe "Top 10 OS's" actually means "My warm fuzzy nostalgic OS's"...
I guess I misunderstood the topic...
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Not sure of your point, but a top 10 OS list with no Microsoft contribution present is silly.
None? I believe I listed MS-DOS ;)
Oh and Microsoft's Basic for Amiga is pretty good too, but it's not an OS, so I didn't list it.
And yes, I like my computing experience to be warm and fuzzy... why the heck not?! lol
@Desiv - LOL!
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Not sure of your point, but a top 10 OS list with no Microsoft contribution present is silly.
With hundreds of operating systems to choose from, I don't see why. You don't have to hate Windows to prefer 10 others. It's a personal choice, at the end of the day.
Of all the windows varieties, my own personal preference (in contrast to Boudicca) is Windows 2000. In many ways it was the first version that was as robust as NT (upon which it was built) that had the ease of use of 9x. It was also last version where you knew exactly where everything was and what everything did. Things started to get progressively more and more abstract since then.
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VMS... really nice and rock- steady OS. Too bad Digital never understood the greatness of it. They pumped all their VMS profit into producing crappy PC's in the 90's and went bust. Hmm... reminds me of another company that made about the same mistake....
Wish there was a DCL emulator for the Amiga :)
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With hundreds of operating systems to choose from, I don't see why. You don't have to hate Windows to prefer 10 others. It's a personal choice, at the end of the day.
Of all the windows varieties, my own personal preference (in contrast to Boudicca) is Windows 2000. In many ways it was the first version that was as robust as NT (upon which it was built) that had the ease of use of 9x. It was also last version where you knew exactly where everything was and what everything did. Things started to get progressively more and more abstract since then.
Your right about knowing where things are, try Windows server 2008, I can't find a bloody thing in it. I have to have google open on the other screen to navigate around it.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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VMS... really nice and rock- steady OS. Too bad Digital never understood the greatness of it. They pumped all their VMS profit into producing crappy PC's in the 90's and went bust. Hmm... reminds me of another company that made about the same mistake....
Wish there was a DCL emulator for the Amiga :)
We are still using it.....running on HP hardware but VMS Mumps is still going strong, its the back bone of Mckesson PAS. VMS might meet its Virtualised maker in the sky this year, we are looking to host it on Intel. http://www.maindec.co.uk/services_charon_vax.html?gclid=CLuWxL7p3qACFcOT3wodPUEDQA
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We are still using it.....running on HP hardware but VMS Mumps is still going strong, its the back bone of Mckesson PAS. VMS might meet its Virtualised maker in the sky this year, we are looking to host it on Intel. http://www.maindec.co.uk/services_charon_vax.html?gclid=CLuWxL7p3qACFcOT3wodPUEDQA
I still use it too. Everyday at work. It would be nice to have it running virtualized on mainstream hardware, I always thought the choice of Itanium was a less brilliant idea.
$ exit 2928
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We are still using it.....running on HP hardware but VMS Mumps is still going strong, its the back bone of Mckesson PAS. VMS might meet its Virtualised maker in the sky this year, we are looking to host it on Intel. http://www.maindec.co.uk/services_charon_vax.html?gclid=CLuWxL7p3qACFcOT3wodPUEDQA
AS/400 -> OS/400 of course ... arf....
MUMPS... no... there cannot - absolutely not - be another MUMPS victim on this forum ?? jees.... my 1st job involved MUMPS (cannot remember the brand, some x86)... I feel for you :( Thats bad :(
Tom UK
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AS/400 -> OS/400 of course ... arf....
MUMPS... no... there cannot - absolutely not - be another MUMPS victim on this forum ?? jees.... my 1st job involved MUMPS (cannot remember the brand, some x86)... I feel for you :( Thats bad :(
Tom UK
Worse I had to develop in it, on x86 using MSM Mumps.....even managed to get the MS mouse working and had nice pull-down menu's....
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Enjoy.
Free VMS (http://www.freevms.net/)
VMS... really nice and rock- steady OS. Too bad Digital never understood the greatness of it. They pumped all their VMS profit into producing crappy PC's in the 90's and went bust. Hmm... reminds me of another company that made about the same mistake....
Wish there was a DCL emulator for the Amiga :)
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Kickstart 1.2 (buggiest thing I've ever seen Guru'ed me to give up and stuck to play games)
WOW! You must not have lived through Kickstart 1.0 and Kickstart 1.1! I remember beta testing Kickstart 1.2 and thinking how great it was compared to 1.0 and 1.1. To be honest, I thought it was the first truly stable version of the OS.
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Kickstart 1.2 (buggiest thing I've ever seen Guru'ed me to give up and stuck to play games)
WOW! You must not have lived through Kickstart 1.0 and Kickstart 1.1! I remember beta testing Kickstart 1.2 and thinking how great it was compared to 1.0 and 1.1. To be honest, I thought it was the first truly stable version of the OS.
Indeed and so did many others. Stable enough to be the first Kickstart to go to ROM ;)
I lived on 1.2 for quite a few years actually with no problems whatsoever. Couldn't afford a hard drive anyway in those days, so I didn't care that it didn't "autoboot".
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1. Windows XP SP3 (x64 Pro) - To be honest, most stable OS i've ever come across, took M$ long enough. :P
2. AmigaOS 3.1 - Uttery stable, whenever it isnt, it's usually hardware (or software faults, not OS).
3. AmigaOS 1.3 - Got to love them colours!
3. Linux (Mint & Knoppix) - Mint for it's nice layout, Knoppix for it's design and cleverness.
4. Windows 7 - Already a hell of a nice OS.
5. Mac OS9.2 - New user of this but wow, is it stable and easy to use!
6. RISC OS - Takes alot of effort to bugger this OS up lol.
7. Morph OS - Very clean.
8. Atari ST TOS 2.04 - Same comment as RISC OS.
9. Spectrum Basic - Simplicity is bliss.
10. AROS - Just wish I could afford it. :(
P.s. Great topic idea. :)
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Worse I had to develop in it, on x86 using MSM Mumps.....even managed to get the MS mouse working and had nice pull-down menu's....
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gosh... MSM rings a bell indeed - yes, wrote far to many lines of it, even using "windows" (text-style). The boss at the time insisted we used single character commands to make the code more compact - and abso-bleep-ing unreadable obviously
Tom UK
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1. Linux (Ubuntu & maybe some other flavours)
2. FreeBSD
3. AmigaOS 2.x and above
4. AROS
5. MorphOS
6. NetBSD
hm... won't reach the 10. The rest pretty much sucks. :lol:
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1. AmigaOS 4.1
2. Debian
3. Beos
4. PdaXII 13 (a Linux distro for PDAs)
5. Sinclair BASIC
No other OSes are coming to my mind right now...
Varthall
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gosh... MSM rings a bell indeed - yes, wrote far to many lines of it, even using "windows" (text-style). The boss at the time insisted we used single character commands to make the code more compact - and abso-bleep-ing unreadable obviously
Tom UK
I do hope that wasn't Midas accounts by any chance.....sounds familiar with Single Char. Looked like computer generated code rather than human. I spent an awful long time with Switzer-Deutsch Dictionary translating the text tooo. ;)
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1.Windows XP
3.Windows 7
5.MorphOS
10.OSX
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AS/400 -> OS/400 of course ... arf....
MUMPS... no... there cannot - absolutely not - be another MUMPS victim on this forum ?? jees.... my 1st job involved MUMPS (cannot remember the brand, some x86)... I feel for you :( Thats bad :(
Tom UK
Dont dis AS/400.. our company used it for about two decades and it worked flawlessly. Even in today, in the year of 2010 it can offer the same as todays systems. We have now moved from AS/400 to Windows (Axapta) and my quess is that the company will face bankcruptsy because of this.
We will know more when my two weeks winterholiday is over ;)
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Here's my list:
1. Linux (Debian and Arch)
2. Amiga OS 3.1
3. Sparta DOS X 4.42
4. MyDOS 4.53
5. MSXDOS 2.41
6. MSX-View 1.20
7. Residos 2.25
I've only listed OS's I currently use. I've used MorphOS for 7 years but not anymore, if I would still be using it I would've listed it in second place.
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How about a breakdown by decade?
For me:
70's - Atari 2600 - all I had! :)
80's - Commodore 64/Amiga WB 1.3
90's - Amiga 2.x, DOS, Windows 98 Second Edition
00's - Windows 2000 PRO - It just Rocked, Linux, Windows XP
I've used a lot more.. but these are ones I like to still play around with...
Cheers!
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How about a breakdown by decade?
For me:
70's - Atari 2600 - all I had! :)
80's - Commodore 64/Amiga WB 1.3
90's - Amiga 2.x, DOS, Windows 98 Second Edition
00's - Windows 2000 PRO - It just Rocked, Linux, Windows XP
I've used a lot more.. but these are ones I like to still play around with...
Cheers!
I like that.......
70's - CP/M
80's - DR Concurrent/Multi-User Dos
90's - Amiga OS 2/3.5/3.9
00's - Windows XP
10's - Debian (Ubuntu - At the moment)
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Best OSes:
10-5. Amiga OS
4. Mac OSX
3. Windows XP
2. Android (Phone OS count too right:)
1. Windows 7
Now for my favorite top 10
10. Mac OSX
9. Mac OS9
8. BEOS
7. Windows 2000
6. Windows XP
5. Windows 7
4. Amiga OS 1.2
3. Amiga OS 3.1
2. Amiga OS 3.5
1. Amiga OS 4
My Honest Opinion!
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The ones that have stuck out were:
Linux. Ive used Ubuntu for 5 years now and its pretty much perfect
Amiga OS. Simple and lean.
OSX seems nice, and I enjoy using it on my wife's laptop, but I've never really spent a lot of time on it, other than basic tasks. Doesn't seem to offer anything that makes the loss of freedom worth the trade.
Of the windows versions, 2000 is the only one I'd consider using if I ultimately had to.