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Longest used Operating System
« on: December 15, 2005, 01:16:18 PM »
The other day I was thinking about product life cycle... and wondered which OS I have used the longest without upgrade to a new version (I only count the time the OS was used as a main OS), so I made a little list:

AmigaOS 1.3   - 2 years
AmigaOS 3.0   - 7 Years
Windows 98se - 2 Years
BeOS 5.0 PE    - 2 Months
SuSE 7.1         - 6 Months
WindowsME    - 24 Minutes
Windows 2K   - 1.5 Years
WindowsXP    - 2 Years
MaxOS X.4     -  6 Months

From that I noticed that AmigaOS 3.0 must have achieved some kind of record for length of time in service... What about others?
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2005, 02:31:10 PM »
AmigaOS 1.3 - 2 years
AmigaOS 2.1 - 2 Years
AmigaOS 3.1 - 5 years
Windows 98 - 2 Years
mandrake linux 7 - 1 month
mandrake linux 8 - 1 week
WindowsME - 1 year
WindowsXP - 4 Years

not included but used at work
win 2k - 3 yrs
win 95 - 1 yr
win nt - 2 yrs
win 98 - 3 yrs
win xp - 3 mo
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2005, 04:18:09 PM »
AOS 3.1 - 5 years
AOS 3.5 - 1 year
AOS 3.9 - 2 years
Win 95 - 4 years (possibly)
Win 98 - 3 years
Win 2k - 2 years
Win XP - 3 years
Mandrake - 3 months
Red Hat - 2 months

I've changed between 98, 2k and XP for a while so it's probably only really 6 years for them together.
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2005, 05:46:30 PM »
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WindowsME    - 24 Minutes

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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2005, 05:49:18 PM »
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WindowsME    - 24 Minutes

:roflmao:


That doesn't include installation time...
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2005, 05:50:20 PM »
Win2k for five years.
Xp one year.
Others for various periods of time.
I still have NT4 on one box, so that'd be 8 years.
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2005, 05:51:35 PM »
hm, ok, I played around with many OS'es, but I mainly used:
1988-1997 MS-DOS
1997-1999 Windows 95
1999-2005 Windows 98
2005-current Windows XP
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2005, 05:52:22 PM »
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Win2k for five years.
I still have NT4 on one box, so that'd be 8 years.


That NT Box would only count if it was used as your main machine for 8 years.
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2005, 05:53:56 PM »
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hm, ok, I played around with many OS'es, but I mainly used:
1988-1997 MS-DOS


If that MS-DOS installation was the same one (ie MS-DOS 4.0) for the whole time, then I think MS-DOS is the winner @ 9 years!!!
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2005, 06:08:27 PM »
Nope, versions 3, 5 and 6.22 came by (no 4 though), but I do not know when I installed them.
And I also had Windows 3.0/3.11 installed, but I hardly used that (btw it's a gui for DOS anyway)
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2005, 06:45:57 AM »
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Win2k for five years.
I still have NT4 on one box, so that'd be 8 years.


That NT Box would only count if it was used as your main machine for 8 years.

It's never been my main box! :-)
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2006, 03:00:11 AM »
Workbench 3.0 - 12 years
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2006, 03:49:55 PM »
Conservative! :p

Hm...

OS1.3 1991-1993 Then again I only played games on the old A500, so that doesn't really count.
OS3.0 1993-1998
OS3.1 1998-2000(?)
OS3.5 2000-2000 (?)
Win2k 2000-2003(?)
WinXP 2003-2005
Mac X august 2005-october 2005

and back to XP :)

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Actually, I also used OS3.5 somewhere too...when was that released? 2000?
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2006, 04:04:18 PM »
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and back to XP :)
:idea: XP = X-P?

Microsoft have their own ASCII fiend?
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Re: Longest used Operating System
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2006, 06:52:43 PM »
YArgh! NOOOOOOOO!
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