I grouped my list into OS families, these being OSes that I used regularly at one time or the other. For example, despite the similarity of names, Windows 3.1 (is it really an OS?) is essentially a different OS from Windows 95, which is completely different from Windows NT and its successors up to the present. These are (in no particular order):
DEC RSTS/E Control Data NOS PrimeOS TRS-80 DOS Apple DOS Atari DOS CP/M-86 MS-DOS Windows 2.0/3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT 4/2000/XP/7/810 VMS DEC Ultrix DEC Unix IBM AIX HP-UX SunOS Solaris AT&T Unix System V Linux (SLS/Slackware/SUSE/Ubuntu) MacOS (from the original System/Finder to version 9) MacOS X FreeBSD Android iOS
I now feel very old.
-- It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:41AM
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Get excited by something not tried yet - not quite OS-es, but: - some microcontroller developer boards are quite cheap - see Arduino - even FPGA-s aren't that expensive
Lots of overlap with my list there. Good poll; my initial guess was likely around a dozen, but when I started to think about phones and other hardware specific options from the early days of micros it went up pretty fast and I got over 20 without the need to count different flavours of Linux, BSD, etc. as different versions; it'd almost certainly be over 50 if I did that. Some other options from my list:
I forgot to mention BeOS. I still have an installation CD and boot disk in my garage somewhere. It was a kick-ass OS for its time. It's unfortunate that Apple didn't buy Be, Inc. but they made the right decision in acquiring Next instead.
-- It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
I was only listing those I've used that were not on the list posted by parent. I've not used Solaris in anger for quite a while now (since before Oracle bought Sun), but used it extensively (as well as SunOS) back in the day for both ISP and manufacturing applications. Somewhat surprised that there are not more mentions of IRIX too - Silicon Graphics used to be *the* platform for high-end graphics work; I'd have thought there would have been at least some old timers here who had run rendering farms, etc.
My list is like yours, except I never used CP/M, Atari DOS, or Android (surprisingly). I can add Unicos (Cray's UNIX), Next OS, and Data General MV series. I also feel (am?) old. :-)
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday February 06 2018, @01:20AM (8 children)
I grouped my list into OS families, these being OSes that I used regularly at one time or the other. For example, despite the similarity of names, Windows 3.1 (is it really an OS?) is essentially a different OS from Windows 95, which is completely different from Windows NT and its successors up to the present. These are (in no particular order):
DEC RSTS/E
Control Data NOS
PrimeOS
TRS-80 DOS
Apple DOS
Atari DOS
CP/M-86
MS-DOS
Windows 2.0/3.1
Windows 95
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/7/810
VMS
DEC Ultrix
DEC Unix
IBM AIX
HP-UX
SunOS
Solaris
AT&T Unix System V
Linux (SLS/Slackware/SUSE/Ubuntu)
MacOS (from the original System/Finder to version 9)
MacOS X
FreeBSD
Android
iOS
I now feel very old.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:41AM (2 children)
Get excited by something not tried yet - not quite OS-es, but:
- some microcontroller developer boards are quite cheap - see Arduino
- even FPGA-s aren't that expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:47AM
Oooh, reminded me: NIOS cores... not really an OS, but certainly a toolchain and a half to get them to do anything.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:22PM
Ooh, good call... there's also MicroPython [micropython.org] (bare-metal Python implementation), that counts as an OS too, right?
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:53PM (3 children)
AIX
AmigaOS
BeOS
DR-DOS
DyNIX
ICL VME
IRIX
NeXT
Novell
OS/2
OS/360, OS/390
PalmOS
RiscOS (Acorn)
SCO Unix
TOPS-20
Xenix
And that's *still* only scratching the surface of the total number of possibilities...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:29AM
I forgot to mention BeOS. I still have an installation CD and boot disk in my garage somewhere. It was a kick-ass OS for its time. It's unfortunate that Apple didn't buy Be, Inc. but they made the right decision in acquiring Next instead.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 09 2018, @11:03PM (1 child)
You're the only IRIX here, along with me. You'd think there would be more.
Though compared to your lists and those of others here, mine is pretty pathetic. Also, no Solaris?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:46AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1) by brausch on Wednesday February 07 2018, @05:36AM
My list is like yours, except I never used CP/M, Atari DOS, or Android (surprisingly). I can add Unicos (Cray's UNIX), Next OS, and Data General MV series. I also feel (am?) old. :-)