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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: bloodline on December 15, 2005, 01:16:18 PM
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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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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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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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bloodline wrote:
WindowsME - 24 Minutes
:roflmao:
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uncharted wrote:
bloodline wrote:
WindowsME - 24 Minutes
:roflmao:
That doesn't include installation time...
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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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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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whabang wrote:
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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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
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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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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bloodline wrote:
whabang wrote:
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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Workbench 3.0 - 12 years
~The End~
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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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odin wrote:
and back to XP :)
:idea: XP = X-P?
Microsoft have their own ASCII fiend?
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YArgh! NOOOOOOOO!
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AmigaOS 1.3 - 1989-1992
AmigaOS 3.0 - 1992-1993
MS-DOS 6.xx - 1993-1994
Windows NT 3.x - 1993-1996
Windows NT4 - 1996-1998
SuSE Linux 5.x - 1998-2000
BeOS Release 5 - 2000-2002
Debian Unstable - 2003 to present.
Although will be using Mac OSX just as soon as the iMac Core Duo arrives this week. :-)
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Amiga 7years
windows 3years
Linux 7years - current
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1989-1993 +3DOS -- 4 Years
1993-1996 MS-DOS 6 + Win 3.11 -- 3 years
1996-1998 Win95 -- 2 years
1998-2001 AmigaOS 3.0 -- 3 Years
2001-2002 AmigaOS 3.9 -- 1 Year
2002-2006 MacOS X 10.2 -- 4 Years(nearly)
While I'm getting a new OS X 10.4 laptop soon, This 10.2 machine will still remain my workhorse.
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uncharted wrote:
While I'm getting a new OS X 10.4 laptop soon, This 10.2 machine will still remain my workhorse.
Oooooh, a MacBook? :-)
Anyway, I think AmigaOS 3.0 has achieved some kind of record!
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Was there only me that used OS2.x? I did run my BBS at it for years on my A2000. Well, the A2K wheren't the most bought machine....
And about OS1.3, did you realy run the WB? Most games and programs din't use that much of the OS in the kickstart, just used it for booting up the software. Like using the BIOS on a PC for booting a floppy/CD/Memorystick. :inquisitive:
And wasn't the "OS1.3" called DOS1.3 (Disk Operating System)?
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OS2.04 10 months
OS3.0 1992 - present (still used for testing)
OS3.1 1995 - present (still used for testing)
OS3.5 1999 - present (main 3.x partition)
OS3.9 2001 - present (secondary 3.x partition)
OS4.0b 2004 - present
MOS 0.7(?) (early demo for BPPC) - 2 weeks or so
AROS sporadically since early 2005
MS-DOS 6.2 1 year
Win95 1995 - present (old PC at parents, still gets used)
Win98 1998 - 2000
Win2K 1999 - present
MacOS 7.5.3 - used occasionally on shapeshifter
MacOS 8 - 2 years
MacOS 9 - 1 year
MacOS 10.2 - 8 months
MacOS 10.3 - 1 year
Solaris 7 months
Linux - sporadically since 2000
NetBSD - when I can be a*sed.
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@Karlos
Ok, now you're just showing off... I did specify that I was only interested in the OS you use as your Main OS. :-D
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The title says longest used and you listed a load down to 24 minutes. Why is my post bad? :-P
OS3.0 and up are all still in use on my systems.
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Mine is a bit complex:
WB1.3: 1989-1991,late 1995-early 1996: so 2 1/2 years total as main OS
Win95: late 1996, early 1998: 1 1/2 years total
WinNT 3.52: early 1997: 3 months (then went back to Win95 - no software/drivers for NT!)
WinNT 4.0: early 1998: 1 month (once again, driver problems - went back to Win95)
Win98: 2002: 5 weeks (buggy crap - had to reinstall 3 times!)
BeOS: 2002: 3 weeks (great, but no software!)
WB3.1: late 2002-present: 3 years
WB3.9: 2003: 3 months (went back to 3.1)
So for me the winner is ... Nothing! Notice that I used no OS between 1991 and 1995 and between mid 1998 and 2002 - for a total of 7 1/2 years. Other than that, WB3.1 is the winner at 3 years. (not counting the crap I had to use at work)
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Karlos wrote:
The title says longest used and you listed a load down to 24 minutes. Why is my post bad? :-P
OS3.0 and up are all still in use on my systems.
Yeah, I actually upgraded to WinME... moved over all my software, Email accounts etc... and had no other computer in my house! 24 minutes later I decided to put 98se back on that machine.
I have various other machines, with various other OSes in my house, but they are for fun, not my main machines :-)
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bloodline wrote:
Oooooh, a MacBook? :-)
Nope, even with the hefty HE student discount, there is no way I could afford one. I'm settling for a nice dinky little 12" iBook G4*
Which I'm actually typing this post on now. So you can add "OS X 10.4 - 18 Hours, 14 minutes and counting" :-)
*Yes I know that all indications point to a new intel iBook being announced in April, however my {bleep} Dell laptop died an evil death at the weekend, plus after weighing it up, there wasn't really much benefit for me in the predicted features (Wider screen, iSight, Frontrow, etc)
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MS-DOS with Xtree gold: 4 yrs
Amiga 2x & 3x: 16 yrs or something stupid like that
Windows 98: 2 dark years
MacOS 8: 1 year
MacOS 9: 4 years
MacOS X: 3 years
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Hey Martin!
How did your final year project go? Are you still at Herts?