Your first OS

Win 3.1 for workgroups but still had to boot into dos to play games (mainly Solar Winds)
 
Sinclair Basic on a Timex Sinclair 1000, then upgraded to a TS2068.

Favorite has to be Windows 2000. It was stable and worked great.

I feel old now ><
 
Well, my first OS would be whatever an Atari 400 ran on. I have vague memories of loading cassette tapes with programs on them.

My favorite OS thus far is probably Win7, though I probably used Win98 the longest.
 
MS-DOS 3 in middle school.

I remember me and a friend installing Windows 95 off floppies over the weekend. Fun times.

Our first computer we owned in 1997, Windows 95. An awesome fast IBM Aptiva (266Mhz, 32MB ram, huge 4GB HD). I still have this machine in the basement with all original hardware (except the CD drive) and it still runs fine.
 
Bahaha, mine was Win 3.0 at home, never did much on it other then poke around on it. Pretty sure it was a Pentium 33Mhz, no idea on RAM or HDD.

My school had Commodore 64s and having to load in the 5.25" drives to play games, good times!

And for a throwback:
Windows_3.0_workspace.png
 
pxc said:
It's far more than a GUI. By the time Windows hit 3.0 it contained a large number of system services that superseded DOS (and BIOS) calls in order to allow multiple DOS (and native) applications to run at once. Windows 3.x was an OS.

GEOS and GEM were also OSs, despite running on top of another layer too. It wasn't unusual back then.
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So are you saying win 3.1 can run without DOS? If so, how? I'd believe operating environment. It was NOTHING without DOS.
 
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My first pc was built from parts my mom had left over from her windows teaching business. First operating system was windows 95. Then it was upgraded and had windows 98.
 
The first OS I ever used was Win 3.1 at my dad's office, where I spent many afternoons after school "doing homework" (and playing the Indiana Jones games :D). The first OS that I "owned" on the first desktop my family bought for home use was Win 95, to date my favorite because of all the new possibilities it opened up my life to. Finally, the first OS I actually bought outright with my own money and not preinstalled on a computer was... actually none, as I always get Windows copies through my line of work and have never had to pay for it myself, but I did buy my parents a copy of Windows 7, so I guess that counts :)
 
First OS' was probably CICS for me - not sure if this an OS - was all mainframe stuff. But could have been sinclair basic on z80... way back

First x86 - DOS 3.3 (I think) with Word Perfect 5.5. Still the business from a simple word processor pov.

Best OS - NT4.0 -though those NEXT boxes sure looked sexy at the time
 
That would be workbench 1.3 for me, since I exclude my zx spectrum's operating system (if you can even call it that).

Last night I powered up my Amiga 500 to check if everything works ok (it did) and I was surprised when I noticed yet again just how responsive and modern looking workbench was.

PS: I understand that technically amigaos was the operating system and workbench the file manager, but old habits die hard. And back then it was all workbench and no mentioning of amigaos.
 
Probably BASIC 2.0 on a VIC20, but I was very young back then.
My family got a Commodore 64 later, but I was still very young, and all I ever used it for was
LOAD "*",8,1

The first OS I actually did anything with was Windows 3.1x, and even then it was only basic change background etc. stuff.
 
*I'm going to assume this is for personal use, not for work use.*

Gee, that's a tough one. My parents owned both Windows 95 and 98SE machines. My first personal computer was a laptop which ran Windows 98SE. I probably used Windows 98SE the most growing up.

As for my favorite OS, I'm not sure. I was a die-hard windows XP (classic mode) user up until recently. Windows 7 has been my favorite OS for the last ~6 years. Now, for the amount of time I've spent in one single OS... Probably Windows XP or some variation of fedora (highschool vs college).

For getting shit done? Probably Fedora Core 6. I have fond memories of setting up home servers with that distro.
 
Windows XP Home Edition. I was 16 and negotiating with my dad on what to get for the money I had available. I could have gone with a pirated Windows XP Professional license from a buddy and been able to afford a Pentium 4, but my dad insisted I pay for Windows. This forced me to go Celeron in order to buy Windows XP Home. :mad:
I eventually upgraded, but my first system was seriously gimped in order to be legit with Microsoft.
 
Mr. Bluntman said:
With the exception of the Mendocino core. The 300A OC'd to 450/100 effortlessly.
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Yes those were the days. But the current revisions are utter crap. My mother sent my little brother against my advice to buy her a new laptop. Now she wants her old laptop back because the new Celeron based HP is so slow. Imagine that!
 
They should be outlawed for everyone because your brother individually can't make good decisions?
 
B00nie said:
Yes those were the days. But the current revisions are utter crap. My mother sent my little brother against my advice to buy her a new laptop. Now she wants her old laptop back because the new Celeron based HP is so slow. Imagine that!
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That's because it is HP.
Don't blame the Celeron for that. ;)

I had a dual-core Ivy Bridge Celeron back in 2013 and it ran almost everything I threw at it.
The one exception was gaming, and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon required just a bit more processing power to run properly.

Modern Celeron CPUs are not the garbage equivalent that were their elder brethren back in the day, not counting the 300A.
 
My family's first computer was a mac, I don't remember which one, or what OS it was running. The first OS I really remember using a lot was Windows 95, I also remember using Windows 3.1, but only for a short period of time.
 
Windows 3.1 was my introduction to PC's. I've used pretty much every MS OS since then.

Windows 2000 & Windows 7 have been my favorites.
 
mikeblas said:
They should be outlawed for everyone because your brother individually can't make good decisions?
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Anyone who picks a celeron can't make good decisions buddy. They're much worse bang for buck than the other basic cpus.

Sometimes when I visit clients I'm completely disgusted by the laggy slowness of their computers - and wouldn't you know it. Celeron, the magic word is often behind the slow as molasses operation. The other popular culprit is antiviruses of course.

F-secure and Ad-aware antivirus along with Kaspersky are the worst offenders. It's super nice to wait 2 seconds for any operation (such as browsing files) to start due to AV lol.
 
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