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  • (Score: 2) by captain_nifty on Monday February 05 2018, @08:31PM (6 children)

    by captain_nifty (4252) on Monday February 05 2018, @08:31PM (#633411)

    Hmm first is probably Commodore BASIC
    followed by DOS, I can't remember specific version numbers, but at least 2
    Then the many versions of Windows
    3.1, 95, 98, NT 4, NT 5, 2000/ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, I have so far managed to avoid 10, but it will probably eventually roll out to my work PC.
    UNIX as well as various versions of Linux; Redhat, Slackware, Ubuntu, Mint, Chrome OS.
    A few others, BeOS, FreeBSD.

    Oh and a few MacOS versions starting around system 6 on.

    Many of these were at work/school and were used only minimally, but many of them were installed (usually by me) on my own machines.

    Hmm I voted 16-19 but this looks like more, but it depends on how you count version/revision.

    If you count mobile and other devices, I guess you could also add versions of iOS, android, TI calculator OS, and too many others to count.

    The funny thing is I don't even really think of myself as a computer expert, I just dabble a little.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday February 05 2018, @09:35PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday February 05 2018, @09:35PM (#633461) Journal

    Yeah, it's hard to vote ( I voted 20 or more) given a move from red hat 5.2 to redhat 6 could be considered 2 different OS.....

    Let's say lots and lots, no matter what you consider an OS!?!

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday February 05 2018, @10:51PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday February 05 2018, @10:51PM (#633506) Homepage
    Whatever was on th ZX81, then Spectrum.
    Then TOS on Atarti ST
    Then CPM
    Then DOS something early, and VMS.
    Then some very early MacOS, and SunOS
    Then Xenix, DOSes 3, 4, 5, and 6.
    Then Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 for workgroups.
    Then Linux something brutally raw that I didn't install myself, and Solaris
    Then Win NT 3.5, and HP-UX
    Then WIn 95 and Win NT 4.0
    Then another later MacOS,
    Then Linux Slackware, Redhat, and Suse
    Then Linux debian 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    During which OSX
    Then whatever Moto had on their phones, S40 and Symbian
    Then Maemo and Harmattan
    Then Gentoo,
    Then Devuan.

    If there's a straight and simple upgrade path between those, I'll not count them as different (So I count 2 windows, 2 Macs, 5 desktop/server linuxes), so I think that's about 20+, but 5 were phone OSes and shouldn't count were it not for 2 of which I use as a computer (n900 and n950), so counting them.

    Call it 18?
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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:45AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:45AM (#634645)

    Same here, if we're including versions, then I've done about 8 Ubuntus alone... Does Debian count different from Ubuntu? How about Gentoo? Raspbian? Slackware, etc.

    Then there's OS-X in half a dozen cats and national parks, several iOS, uncounted flavors of Android.

    Then if we're going back in time, we've got the Windows family: 3.1, 95-98-98SE-ME, NT, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10... DOS, DrDOS, CPM, Atari BASIC, Commodore, Tandy, VAX, Gould, and I've probably forgotten more than I've included.

    Favorite? Whatever works and doesn't prompt me to update it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Sourcery42 on Thursday February 15 2018, @05:51PM (1 child)

    by Sourcery42 (6400) on Thursday February 15 2018, @05:51PM (#638328)

    I miss BeOS. It was super fast on the hardware of the day, simple, and had a nice interface. I never actually had a BeBox, but I missed around with the Developer's Edition or something like that shortly after Be Inc ceased to be. Nostalgia drives me to test drive Haiku on occasion, but it just isn't the same.

    • (Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Monday February 19 2018, @03:37AM

      by SDRefugee (4477) on Monday February 19 2018, @03:37AM (#639945)

      If you liked BeOS, then you should check out HaikuOS.. (https://www.haiku-os.org/). It is pretty much BeOS and though its still alpha, its pretty stable, and runs BeOS software.. Theres a lot of ports of Linux programs over to it... I run it frequently in Virtualbox... Very Cool!!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:15PM (#640661)

    Thanks for reminding me about the C=64...

    I'm grouping a lot of these together, as I consider some of them too close to being different versions of the same OS.

    I'm also not counting OSes that I only touched a few times on other people's computers (Commodore PET, WinME, Mac System 7(?))

    So, my list would be:

    Commodore 64

    Vax/VMS (used during my university days to chat and send email over this thing called the "internet")

    MS DOS

    MS Windows 3.0/3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups

    MS Windows 95/98/ME

    Windows NT 3.51/ 4.0/2000

    Windows XP

    Windows 7

    Windows 8/8.1 (this probably should be grouped either with 7, or with 10?)

    Windows 10

    MacOS X

    GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Slackware, etc)

    BSD (FreeBSD)