Top 10 Os's ?

[Boudicca]

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.

[Boudicca]

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)

[Boudicca]

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.

[Boudicca]

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.

[Boudicca]

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.

[Boudicca]

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

[Boudicca]

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....

[Boudicca]

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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.

[Boudicca]

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)