eruheru Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 was there a major os before windows '95? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Prior to Windows '95 the major opeating systems were Windows 3, DOS 6, Apple's Macintosh and IBM's OS/2. Also a lot of us used the Commodore Amiga during that time frame, which had its own OS loosely based on UNIX/DOS. (That should be roughly the correct order of their popularity, too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 I used Windows 3.1 and DOS before win98 and now I'm on XP, that's my whole OS life story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 My os history is: Amiga OS (the greates ever os!!!) Dos (with windows 3.11 for workgroups Win 95. The most dominante shorty pre 95 os on the desktop was probably Dos, which was quite frankly awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 yeah! THE aMIGA rULES! I have 12 of them here, 3 are always On, and I only have to suffer ONE windows PC :)OS 3.5 all day long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Hey, don't forget the BBC Basic. I had one of those when I was about 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 I still have nightmares about trying to squeeze inits into the 640k barrier and still leave enough room for apps to run. I remember so many times when it simply was not possible to satisfy the requirements of both the application and the needs of the various bits of installed hardware. That was back when IT people had to WORK for a living. And we WALKED to work, 50 miles, UPHILL BOTH WAYS! The sad thing is, there are people who work in IT today who have no idea what that even means, much less what it was like dealing with that nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 was there a major os before windows '95? There were several, the most notable being Unix, VMS, and OS/360 (now z/OS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Hey, don't forget the BBC Basic. I had one of those when I was about 3 yeah! Beeb basic is STILL the best (and I was fluent in 8 different dielects of basic back then, so I have a reasonable idea of what I`m on about), actualy it`s probably the best 8bit machine ever made for interfacing too. I have 4 working beebs here also edit: I`m surprised no one`s mentioned TOS yet either (Tramiel Operating System) It`s still used today in some studios for music production also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Can anyone remember which oldy it was that had 'desktop waiter' on it? Im trying to remember the old one we had in school, but thats pretty-much all that I can remember: that it had a program called 'waiter' on it (i have a feeling that waiter was part of the OS rather than an added on application.) Oh, and that if you pressed F12 the bar-along-the-bottom shifted up one, and a command-line interface appeared below it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obba Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 With that TOS, wasn't that Jack Tramiel of ATARI? ST1024 rings a bell somewhere Your right, the music side to that OS is still lurking around in some studios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eruheru Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 too bad i missed out on all the good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 i missed out on most Windows 95 -> Windows XP -> Ubuntu 5.04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 With that TOS' date=' wasn't that Jack Tramiel of ATARI? ST1024 rings a bell somewhere Your right, the music side to that OS is still lurking around in some studios.[/quote'] the very same chap indeed, and before the ST1024 we had atari 520STFM (I have one of those here too). as for the music I think it was adopted because it was the 1`st ever home computer with built in MIDI ports and the software to support it, so naturaly the writers for it had a head start and knew what the masses wanted before any other platform had a plug-in-the-back interface on the market to compete with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eruheru Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 does anyone know a site with a detailed history computers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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