What has your first OS?
#1
Posted 01 January 2014 - 07:08 PM
My first OS has: Win 95
#2
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:28 AM
#3
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:54 AM
#4
Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:41 AM
#5
Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM
Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
#6
Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:01 AM
oeed, on 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM, said:
Edited by theoriginalbit, 02 January 2014 - 05:02 AM.
#7
Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:18 AM
just barely though. os 9 came out a few months later
#8
Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM
#9
Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:54 AM
Bomb Bloke, on 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:
Edited by distantcam, 02 January 2014 - 06:54 AM.
#10
Posted 02 January 2014 - 08:34 AM
Digging around further now, I'm fairly certain the machine would've been a PC1640 with a 20mb HDD instead of the secondary floppy drive (640K was written in large proud letters on the front). This would imply that it booted into MS DOS 3.something, DOS Plus likely being the variant I could load on top of that. It had access to GW-BASIC and BASIC2, the latter of which I made a graphical hangman game out of.
The machine was purchased by my parents as a work system for their plant center - they actually payed for it with plants. Since it was second-hand I'm not sure if it came with the original "install" disks, but it certainly came with a lot of the things and I still happen to have most (all?) of them, along with a couple of 5 1/4" floppy drives (the machine itself eventually wound up with some of my grandparents, who unfortunately shipped it off to the tip when they eventually upgraded - if I'd ever known they were planning that I'd've put my foot down on them holding it until I could take it).
This is a computer that'd take nearly a second to execute an ECHO statement in a batch file (most of which time was likely spent in reading the line from the drive, which produced a unique sort of whirring/beeping noise as it did so). I got a copy of Commander Keen 1 for it off a friend's computer - for like a month we couldn't get it to work, starting the game would make the computer appear to stall and we'd have to reboot it. Eventually I figured out that actually, unlike my friend's computer (which could run Windows and stuff and started the game in like two seconds), the Amstrad simply required two whole minutes to load the game. On a modern system under DOSBox you'd be doing well to spot that it had loading messages - when we eventually upgraded to a 486DX2 they snapped by in the blink of an eye.
Edited by Bomb Bloke, 02 January 2014 - 08:39 AM.
#14
Posted 02 January 2014 - 10:09 AM
#15
Posted 02 January 2014 - 11:44 AM
#16
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:49 PM
then Windows XP
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Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:36 AM
#18
Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:38 AM
#19
Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:40 AM
Edit: the oldest I've used is prodos 16 for the apple ii gs.
Edited by nutcase84, 03 January 2014 - 05:45 PM.
#20
Posted 03 January 2014 - 11:01 AM
Oldest OS I've used would probably be BASIC, rewritten for RedPower2
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