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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:31PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:31PM (#634106)

    I'd propose an interpretation of "did you act as a systems administrator or software dev on that OS" as the cutoff.

    Side question, bare metal or is retrocomputing simulation OK?

    I know enough OS/8 (the PDP-8 OS, not mac), MVS/360, and TOPS-10 to be dangerous, but I'll never run them on bare metal (probably).

    Let me just throw it out there that TOPS-10 is a cool OS. Long before apple tried to define itself as the friendly computer, TOPS-10 was actually friendly. MVS/360 is technologically impressive but no one would ever define it as friendly, its more of a KafkaOS. OS/8 was written in the 70s for 60s/70s minicomputers and is what 80s first wave home computers SHOULD have had instead of CP/M msdos and TRSDOS. Imagine the progress lost in IT/CS because of 80s home computers. Imagine the progress of a world of $100 PDP-8s running OS/8 instead of $100 commie 64s barely able to run MS basic.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:59AM (2 children)

    by dry (223) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:59AM (#634323) Journal

    I'd think using it as your primary OS at least some of the time. I have an install of Minix that I installed out of curiosity and played with a bit. I didn't count it. I'm posting from an obscure semi-dead OS with a year old browser, which I counted.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @01:53PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @01:53PM (#639691)

      The joke is on you. You have more than one install of minix ( assuming you have a recent intel board.. )

      • (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:32PM

        by dry (223) on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:32PM (#639783) Journal

        Luckily my CPU is probably too old to include Minix.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @09:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @09:00AM (#635453)

    I'd propose an interpretation of "did you act as a systems administrator or software dev on that OS" as the cutoff.

    According to that criterion probably the vast majority of computer users have used no operating system at all. The OS came preinstalled on the computer, and they didn't change anything until they dumped the computer for the next model.