Inert Ramblings

4 thoughts on “Operating system buffet…”

1. Wow, that brings back some flashbacks.

   MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x, NT, 2000, XP — yep;
   Solaris/SunOS — paid my way through college doing system admin;
   CP/M — bought a Commodore 128 thinking I could run those “thousands of CP/M programs” (-;
   Other ‘nix flavors: HP/UX, AIX, SCO Unix, DEC Ultrix, ATT System V, Linux (slackware, redhat), BSD Unix, Mac/UX
   Sequent Dynix — parallel processing unix, parallel “make” rules!
   OS/360 & MVS/TSO — another class for which I was a teaching assistant;
   Mac OS (Mac Classics circa 1986 – wanted to buy an Apple but the dealers were
   pretty snotty), Amiga OS, GeOS (late Commodore era UI). Also hacked on Apple ][s, Atari 800s and C=64s.

   Now I’m feeling old…

2. Back in the late sixties, I took a FORTRAN class that used paper punch cards. We would go to the principal’s office during study hall time and punch our cards on an IBM keypunch machine. When we were ready with our program, we wrapped the stack of cards up with a rubber band and gave them to our teacher. After school, he took the cards to a local college and an operator there would run our programs, one at a time on a GE computer and then wrap our cards up with the printouts the program produced. Our teacher would pick the cards and the printouts the next day and give them back to us. BTW, the operators were a bunch of wiseasses and would write odd remarks on your printouts. I don’t feel that old, I just feel like I grew up on another planet.

3. 1.) VAX/VMS
   2.) MS-Dos
   3.) Windows 3.x
   4.) Windows 9x
   5.) Windows NT
   6.) Windows 2000
   7.) Windows XP
   8.) BeOS
   9.) QNX
   10.) Solaris
   11.) SunOS
   12.) Linux
   13.) FreeBSD
   14.) OpenBSD
   15.) NetBSD
   16.) Mac OS 8
   17.) Mac OS X

   1.) DeathRow OpenVMS Cluster
   2.) IBM Personal System/2 Model 30 (PC-DOS 3.30)
   3.) 486DX2 4M MS-Dos 5 Windows 3.1
   4.) IBM Aptiva 233K6 32M Windows 95 (Windows 98 Upgraded Later On), Packard Bell 120MHz 16M Windows 95, Hewlett Packard Pavilion 5040, IBM Personal Computer 340 Windows 95
   5.) Hewlett Packard Vectra Vei8 (NT4 Workstation)
   6.) Two Custom Machines For 6 Months (AMD 1100 AMD XP 1900)
   7.) IBM Thinkcentre A30, Compaq Presario S3000NX, Custom 1.8 Celeron
   8.) Dell Latitude CpX 650P3 128M BeOS5 Max PE 3
   9.) Dell Latitude M233XT 96M
   10.) Solaris 9 & 10 x86 on Hewlett Packard Vectra Vei8
   11.) Cyberspace.Org Grex
   12.) Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Caldera, Turbolinux, Phlak, Suse, Whitebox, Core. Most on my Hewlett Packard Vectra Vei8 and Custom 2.4GHz Overclocked Gaming PC (NVidia Geforce 6800, 768M DDR400, Athlon XP)
   13.) 4.10, 4.6.2, 4.8, 5.0 RC2, 5.3 On Hewlett Packard Vectra Vei8
   14.) 3.6 On Hewlett Packard Vectra Vei8
   15.) 1.6, 1.6.2 On Custom 90MHz Pentium 16M
   16.) School Computer 68K PowerMac
   17.) iBook G3 12″ 700MHz 256M 10.3.7 (Panther)

   In the past, I have used Windows, BSD, and Linux as workstations and servers. I have many more machines tested then listed for most of the listed operating systems. I have probably used Linux for more then 450 hours. I have used commercial UNIX, such as OS X and SunOS/Solaris for an estimated 18 hours. I have used BSD derivatives for an estimated 36-48 hours hands on. I have used BeOS an estimated 5 hours on two different machines, one not listed. I have used QNX for an estimated 3 hours on one computer. I have used OS X an estimated 16 hours on my newish iBook. I have used VMS onsite at the EMWD for an estimated 25 minutes and remotely via the DeathRow OpenVMS cluster for 2 hours. I have used Mac OS 8 on a school computer several years ago for 4 hours. I have used Windows 95 100 hours, Windows 98 150 hours, Windows 2000 200 hours, Windows XP 200 hours, Windows NT 4 26 Hours

4. operating systems can either make or break your system that is why it is wise to choose a vey stable one.*`.

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