You're OS progression on your main PC?

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criccio

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I like dumb threads like these, sue me. ;)

On your main PC, the one you use everyday, what is the timeline of OS's you have used?

I'll begin.

  1. Mac OS 7
  2. Mac OS 8
  3. Mac OS 9
  4. Mac OS X (all itterations minus Snow Leopard)
  5. Windows Vista Ultimate x64
  6. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Public Beta
  7. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RC
  8. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM

I only made the jump to Windows when I joined this forum, so roughly 1.5 years ago.
 
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DOS something, prolly 6
windows 3.11
windows 95
windows 98
windows ME for a few months until...
windows 2000 from release until...
windows XP from release until...
windows XP x64 from release until...
windows vista ultimate 64 SP1 from release (skipped vanilla vista) until...
windows 7 ultimate 64 beta 1 (installed march this year) until...
windows 7 ultimate 64 RC1 from release until...
windows 7 professional 64 RTM installed late august this year

btw...was working on windows NT 4.0 server yesterday with win98 clients...they dont even support USB thumb drives...
 
First Machine
DOS
Second Machine
Mac OS 7
Third Machine
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
(I had a Mac G4 during this same time period running Mac OS 9, later 10)
Fourth Machine
Windows XP Professional
Current Machine
Windows Vista Ultimate (Beta, 64bit)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
Windows 7 Ultimate Beta 64bit
Windows 7 Ultimate RC 64bit
Winodws 7 Professional RTM 64bit
 
DOS 6.2 with Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP
Windows Vista Ultimate x86
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
vista ultimate x64 and then win7 ultimate x64 because QAM is easier to get working on it.
 
DOS 5.0
DOS 6.22
DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.0
DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.1 & Mac OS 7 (used Mac for games, PC for work)
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98
Windows 98se
Windows Me (Beta)
Windows Me / Windows 2000 Professional (Dual Boot)
Windows XP (Whistler Beta)
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista 32-bit (Beta) / Windows XP Professional (Dual Boot)
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64-bit (Beta/RC1)
Windows 7 64-Bit RTM
 
Some really old OS, monitor said Tandy, but thats all i remember
DOS
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows XP
Windows Vista 32bit
Windows 7 64bit
 
Windows:
95
98
XP
Vista
7

I've used Linux on and off but not enough to make it a main OS. Same with Mac OS.
 
PC DOS 7.0
Windows 3.1
Windows for Workgroup 3.11
Windows 95 (Windows NT 4.0 on server)
Windows 95 R2
Windows Memphis (98 beta)
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Professional (Windows 2000 Server on server)
Windows XP Professional (Windows 2003 Standard on server)
Windows Vista Business and Ultimate (Windows 2008 Standard on server) - (lots of computers by now)

During the Windows XP period I've accumulated enough parts and bought more to build several computers for the home. So I've switched OS a lot on the spare PC. Tinkered with Linux a great deal - Gentoo being my favorite distro. At the moment the spare PC is running Windows 7 Enterprise evaluation.
 
Commodore BASIC 2.0
GEOS
Windows FWG
Windows 95 OSR 2
Corel Linux / Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP Pro / Fedora Core 2
WIndows Vista Ult 64
 
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME Beta
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista 32
Windows Vista 64
Windows 7 64
 
criccio said:
We officially have someone who admits to using Win ME. ;)
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Better someone who uses ME and admits to it's failure than people who speak from hearsay like lots of Vista naysayers do.

I used ME myself but only for less than a week. I was just sick of the bluescreens when I so much as sneeze. So it doesn't count against my list as I've not used it very long.
 
On all my PCs ever owned

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP Pro
Windows Vista Ult 64
Windows 7 Pro 64 (current)
 
Windows 3.1
Windows 95 (I think)
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista Business 64
and soon to be Windows 7 Pro 64
 
OSes I have used on what I'd consider my "main" machine (which has changed over time)
DOS-something
Mac OS 7.5
Mac OS 8.5
Windows ME (EW!)
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Windows Vista
Windows 7 Beta (x86 and x64 on two different machines)
Windows 7 post-Beta, pre-RC "releases" ;) (only x64)
Windows 7 RC (x86 and x64)
Windows 7 RTM (MSDNAA)
 
Cool thread!

Here is my history on both PC and Mac:

Dos (not sure what number though)
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows XP x64 (until I found out drivers sucked on my machine)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (coming soon)

Mac OS X (Tiger)
Mac OS X (Leopard)

Beta OS software not included.
 
Let's see...

DOS 6.22/Win 3.1
Win95
Win98
FreeBSD 4
Win98
Red Hat 5.2
Win98
Mandrake 9
Mandrake 10
Win2k
Gentoo/WinXP
Ubuntu/Vista
7
 
DOS 5
DOS 6.2
DOS 6.22/Windows 3.1
DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP
 
Windows XP Home Edition
Ubuntu
2000
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows 7 RTM
Arch
Windows Vista Home Premium;)
 
Amiga
Win98 (Uni so not really my machine)
Win2k
Win2k & Linux
Linux & WinXP
Linux & WinXP
 
On my main PC, the one I actually own right now. I have had XP, Vista, 7 and OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard.

If you are talking about all my PC's I have started with DOS and Deskmate which was the tandy OS. Then Windows 3.11 for workgroups and every version of windows after that. Various linux distros and OSX Tiger on up.

Right now i'm running Windows 7 x64 primarily. But I do have Leopard on a spare drive that I can dual boot in to.
 
Archer75 said:
On my main PC, the one I actually own right now. I have had XP, Vista, 7 and OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard.

If you are talking about all my PC's I have started with DOS and Deskmate which was the tandy OS. Then Windows 3.11 for workgroups and every version of windows after that. Various linux distros and OSX Tiger on up.

Right now i'm running Windows 7 x64 primarily. But I do have Leopard on a spare drive that I can dual boot in to.
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I pretty much mirror this, with OS/2 and a proprietary Xerox OS thrown in from an old job. The Xerox OS was essentially BASIC, but all the commands were reworded:mad: It was annoying, and nobody had any documentation.
 
Started on a Commodore64
Then on to an Amiga.

on my computer?

Win 3.1.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP

And I'm starting to think about making the jump to 7.
 
For my main system:
DOS 5.0/Win 3.1
DOS 6.2/Win 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR 2 (Had to have > 2 GB partitions)
Windows 98
Windows ME (I was dumb enough to buy the upgrade)
Windows 2000
Windows XP (from Beta 2 on)
Windows XP x64
Windows Vista x64 (from Beta 2 on)
Windows 7 x64 (from RC on)
 
Not counting old Commodore systems:
DOS 5.0
DOS 6.22
DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11
Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0 (Dual Boot)
Windows 98 / Windows NT 4.0 (Dual Boot)
Windows 98se / Windows NT 4.0 (Dual Boot)
Windows Me / Windows 2000 Professional (Dual Boot)
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
 
Started on Commodore 64 then...
DOS 4.01
DOS 5.x
DOS 6.x
Windows 95 (never really used Win 3.x, fired it up a few times to look at but that's it)
Windows 98
Windows 2000 beta (it was called Windows NT 5.0 then.)
Windows ME (got it with a new computer, I never really had an abnormal amount of problems with it.)
Windows XP Home
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit for a few months, then a year and a half with x64)
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

At some point, back in the mid 90s, I installed linux, but couldn't figure out how to compile support for my modem into the kernel and said F it.
 
TI 99/4A with built-in Basic interpreter
DOS 4.01 with runtime Windows (so I could run MS Word)
DOS 5.0 with Windows 3.0
DOS 6.02 with Windows 3.1
Windows NT 3.1 Beta
Windows 95
Windows NT 4.0 (I had Redhat 4.0 running on a secdondary machine as I couldn't do some of the Internet stuff i wanted to on Windows until 2k came out, edit those text files and custom compile those modules into a monolithic kernel for speed baby!)
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Pro
Windows Vista Ultimate x86
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
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gaming machine:

some really old mac, don't know what OS, didn't have a graphical gui. green screen! 5 inch floppies
dos (dont know version)
dos + windows 3.1
windows 95
windows 98se
windows me
windows xp pro
windows xp pro x64
windows 7 x64


media server/downloading:

windows me
windows xp
ubuntu 8.04 x86
slackware
ubuntu 8.10 x86
openbsd (not having fun with this guy, granted i'm not really good with linux/unix OS's at all)
 
First machine:
Commodor 64: Commodore BASIC 2.0

Second machine:
Dell L800r:
Windows ME
Windows XP

Self Built:
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
 
haadij404 said:
i thought the OP wanted us to post the progression on our current main pc's.

windows 95 was my "first" OS.
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Yeah, he did say main pc. So that's what I posted as well. My desktop I am using right now.
 
haadij404 said:
i thought the OP wanted us to post the progression on our current main pc's.

windows 95 was my "first" OS.
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I am the OP. lol..

You have had many "main PC's" over the years so I wanted to know what OS you ran on them, not just your current main PC. Obviously I didn't run Mac OS 7, 8, 9 AND Windows 7 on the same machine. ;)
 
MS Dos 3.3
PC Dos. 4.0
MS Dos 5.0
MS Dos 6.0
MS Dos 6.22
Windows 95
Windows 95B <--> SlackWare Linux
Windows 98 <--> SlackWare Linux
Windows 98SE <--> FreeBSD
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
 
Windows 95
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 Professional x64
 
Family Machines
  • Commodore Basic 2.0 ( Vic-20 )
  • Commodore BASIC 2.0 ( C=64 )
  • Commodore BASIC 7.0 ( C=128 ) ...even though 90% of its time was in C=64 mode
  • MS DOS 4
  • MS DOS 5
  • MS DOS 6
  • MS Windows 3.x

Personal Machines (primary)
  • Windows NT 3.51
  • Windows NT 4
  • Slackware Linux (3.x, 4.x, 7.x, IIRC)
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Vista

So, yeah... I managed to avoid really running Windows 9x on my own (primary) machines. I've just had to fix it for everyone else I know.
 
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