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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday February 06 2018, @01:20AM (8 children)

    by mendax (2840) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @01:20AM (#633569)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:41AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:41AM (#633650) Journal

    I now feel very old.

    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

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:47AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:47AM (#634646)

      Oooh, reminded me: NIOS cores... not really an OS, but certainly a toolchain and a half to get them to do anything.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:22PM (#643476)

      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)

    by zocalo (302) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:53PM (#634061)
    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:

    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...
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    • (Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:29AM

      by mendax (2840) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:29AM (#634273)

      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.

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    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 09 2018, @11:03PM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday February 09 2018, @11:03PM (#635761) Homepage

      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

        by zocalo (302) on Saturday February 10 2018, @10:46AM (#635964)
        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.
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  • (Score: 1) by brausch on Wednesday February 07 2018, @05:36AM

    by brausch (3519) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @05:36AM (#634307)

    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. :-)