You're OS progression on your main PC?

ms-dos 2.1 (iirc) (2! 360k floppy drives)
ibm pc-dos (3.1?)
ms-dos 5.x
win98FE (still resides in dual boot)
Freebsd 5x (fry's box CD set) (2004)
Freebsd 5.x (minor version bump
Freebsd _6 ("stable")
(*freezer trick* 80g > 120g)
Freebsd _7 ("stable") as of march last year
Freebsd _8 ("stable") as of... sometime past noon today.
Posted the _7 _8 procedure at the forum (link) at freebsd.org...
that I used (diary-type, for those familiar roughly with it already.)
It "rolls over" rather than upgrades (ie never reinstalls) in the
usual way...
 
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Since everyone else is going into other systems too...

TRS-80 Model II (with a f'n slow-ass cassette tape)
Commodore 64 (GEOS) (Floppy drive... now we're goin fast)
AMIGA 500 w/Workbench 1.2 3.5" Floppy (High tech baby)
AMIGA 500 w/Workbench 1.3
AMIGA 2000 w/Workbench 2.04 on a 100MB SCSI drive.

Commodore dies....

DOS 3.3 on an old MFM drive
DOS 5
DOS 6
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
OS/2 Warp
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows ME (BIG MISTAKE)
Windows XP
Windows XP MCE
Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 RC
Windows 7 Ultimate... when I get around to it.
 
On what I considered my main PC, only counting IBM compatibles from the 386 on, and ignoring the Atari 800, Coleco Adam, Tandy, Commodore and various other ancient systems:

Various DOS versions.
Win 3.11
95
98SE (best of the 9X series, which does not really say much)
Xp 32/nix (dual boot with various Deneb and Unbuntu versions over a several year period when I used Win for games and nix for just about everything else. Vista greatly reduced my reasons for doing that, so I stopped the practice).
Xp 64/nix
back to Xp 32/nix (I do a lot of gaming and XP 64 had too many issues at the time for me to stay with it. It labors on in my home server and on some of my other non gaming boxes. Great OS that only received any really good hardware support after it had mostly become irrelevant as a possible mainstream OS)
Vista x64
7 x64 beta
7 x64 RC
Next will be Win 7 Home Premium x64 retail.

I pre ordered a couple copies of retail upgrade when the $50 deal was going on. Though I wish I had went for Enterprise, because the virtual Xp mode intrigues me. I have 98SE, 2K, and Xp virtual machines anyway, so I am still good with just Home Premium. Just will not be quite as seamless for me as it could have been. On my other computers I tend to use whatever works for that computers intended use, and what ever I happen to have a license for.
 
Dos 5.0 -> Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. All of em in various flavors except ME and 2000 Professional.
 
win98
win2000
winxp
win vista
delete vista, back to winxp
erase vista from all physical, logical, and imaginary memory
win7
 
Windows 95 on my dad's work Toshiba laptop (P66-era)
Windows 98 on my dad's work IBM ThinkPad laptop (P233-era)
Windows 98 on my Pentium 166 w/ 32MB of RAM.
Windows 98 on my Pentium 3 650.
Windows 2000 on my Pentium 3 650.
Windows ME on my Pentium 3 650.

I think I then went back to Windows 2000.

Windows XP Pro on my Pentium 3 650. (September of 2001)
Windows XP Pro on my P4 3.4GHz
Windows XP Pro on my C2Q Q6600 Shuttle.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my C2Q Q6600 Shuttle. (September of 2009) - Used XP for 8 years.
 
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Commodore 64 (remember Quantum Link?)
Geo's (Didn't use it much)
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Win2000
WinXP
Windows Vista Ultimate 64
 
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows 2K Pro
Windows XP Pro
Windows Vista Ultimate 64
Windows 7 Professional

And that is just my home computer :-x. Most of the other ones I use still run XP since I hate vista with a passion.
 
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows Vista Ultimate (64bit)
Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit)
 
DOS...various versions up to 6.something + win 3.1
win95
winnt4/openbsd
win2k
winxp
freebsd 4-7
Linux

I should mention at the same time I switched to winnt 4, I started admining openbsd boxes...
 
When I shared a computer with my family(starting when I was 3 years old, 1988 til 2001)
DOS
Win 95 Original
Win 95 w/ USB
Win ME
Win XP

My desktop
Win 2000 pro
Dualboot tried Redhat
Win XP pro
Dualboot tried Ubuntu
Win Vista home premium x64
Win 7 pro x64

My netbook
windows xp
tried ubuntu
tried hacked osx
tried vista
win 7 pro
 
I'll start with my own personal machines (excluding those of my family when I was growing up)

Machine 1 (Dual P3 Ighz baby!)
Win 2k Pro
Win XP Pro

Machine 2 (Dual Xeon P4's)
Win Xp Pro

Machine 3 (C2D)
Win Xp Pro

Machine 4 (current, q6600)
Win Xp Pro
Win Vista x32
Win Vista x64
Win 7 x64
 
3.11, 95all releases, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, XPx64, Vista and Seven, both 64bit.
 
Window 3.1
Mac 7.0
Window 95
Window 98
Window 2000
OS X
Window XP
Window Vista
 
Embedded OSes on Timex Sinclair, C-64, C-128.
Since then all x86 'Wintel' machines; DOS 3.3, DOS 5.x, DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, 98SE, Win Me (lasted 1 week before bricking), Win 2000, Win XP.
(Naturally, all manner of Linux and Microsoft Server OSes on secondary machines, Vista @ work.)
 
Dos 5.0 w/ GEOS
Dos 6.22 (till the bitter end I might add)
Win95
Win98
Win2000 (all the way till 2008)
WinXP (barely)
Win7
 
Win 3.1
Win 95
Win 98
Win 98SE
Win 2000
Win XP
Win Vista
Win Vista x64
Win 7 x64 RTM
 
Interesting to see that some others started out with Mac OS 7. Had some good times with that OS.
 
On all of my PCs:

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME (Horrible memories...)
Windows XP
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows 7 x64 RC
Windows 7 x64 RTM
 
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP

I'm debating 7 now but I'm not 100% sold yet.
 
95
98
ME
XP Professional
Vista Ultimate
7 Ultimate RTM
Currently back to Vista Ultimate
 
Amiga Workbench 1.3 (hey, at the time it was my main)
MS-DOS...5.0?
MS-DOS 6.0/6.22
Amiga Workbench 2.0
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98/98SE
Windows Me
Windows 2000 Professional for about five minutes
Windows XP
Windows XP/x64
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 (current)
 
Windows 98SE - Dec. '99
Windows XP Professional - Oct. '01
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 - Jan. '07
Windows 7 RC x64 - May '09
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - July '09
 
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 7

Mac OS
-System 7
-Tiger
-Leopard

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
 
DOS 6.0
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista 64
Windows 7 Pre-Odered

Play OS's / VM
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Fedora 8
Fedora 9
Mandriva
 
Dos 6.xx
Windows 3.11
Compaq Tab Works (shell for 3.11)
Windows for Work Groups
Win95
Win98
Corel Linux
NT 4.0
NT 4 server
WinMe (lasted a month maybe before going back to 98se)
BeOS
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Redhat
Ubuntu
Mint Linux
Vista 32 Business
Vista 64-bit Business
Windows 7 32-bit beta
Windows 7 64-bit Beat
Windows 7 RTM 64-bit
 
dos 5
dos 6
windows 3.11
windows 95
windows 98
windows xp pro x64
dual boot windows xp pro x64 / windows 7 RC1 x64 build 7100
 
Azhar said:
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.
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I ran Win Me with issue for a nice long time until win xp came out on my pc. Like it and never had an issue. I think most folk just went off of hearsay just as they are doing with Vista.

I saw a funny post over at Anandtech aboutwhy this man does not use Vista and thinks it is crap..... Oh lord is all I can say...
 
  1. Win95
  2. Win98
  3. WinNT 4
  4. Win2000
  5. (Win2000)(Mandrake Linux)
  6. (WinXP)(RedHat/Fedora/Ubuntu Linux)
  7. (WinVista)(CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu Linux)(OSX10.5)
 
First PC (486 DX2/66mhz/16mb) - 1996
OS/2 Warp (So I could play my conventional memory hogging Star Trek games)
Windows 95

Second PC (Pentium 75/32mb) - 1997
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 95

Third PC (Pentium 200 MMX OC'd to 266/64mb) - 1998
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows 2000 Beta

Fourth PC (Celeron 300A OC'd to 375/128mb) - 1999
Windows 2000 Beta
Windows ME

Fifth PC (Athlon 1ghz Thunderbird OC'd to 1.1ghz/512mb) - 2000
Windows 2000
Windows XP

Sixth PC (Athlon 1.4ghz Palomino OC'd to 1.6ghz/512mb) - 2001
Windows XP

Seventh PC (Athlon-M 1.8ghz Barton OC'd to 2.3ghz/1gb) - 2003
Windows XP
Vista (Alpha Build)

Eighth PC (Dual Athlon-M 1.8ghz Barton OC'd to 2.3ghz/1gb) - 2005
Windows XP

Ninth PC (A64 4800X2+ OC'd to 5000X2+/4gb) - 2007
Windows XP 64bit

Tenth PC (Phenom X4 2.3ghz OC'd to 2.5ghz/8gb) - 2008
Windows XP 64bit
Vista 64bit

Eleventh PC (Dual QC Opteron 1.8ghz/16gb) - 2009
Windows XP 64bit
Vista 64bit
Windows 7 64bit

Twelfth PC (Phenom II X2 2.8ghz OC'd to 3.8ghz/8gb) - 2009
Windows 7 64bit
 
MS-DOS 6.1 - I still have the floppy disks for it!
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Ubuntu 9.04 (installed as a dual-boot with Vista)
 
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP
Vista 64

Think Im gonna hold at 64 for awhile before goign to Windows 7. I have had no troubel at all with Vista and like it
 
Compaq 486 someone gave me (486dx till I swapped it with an intel "overdrive", 400MB HDD, compressed to 800MB if I remember right)
DOS + Windows 3.1
Windows 95

E-Machines POS:
Windows ME
Might have run windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server (akin to Server 2003 Standard)
Windows 2000 Advanced Server (akin to Server 2003 Enterprise)

Custom Rig 1:
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Now sits as a IRC/TS server runing CentOS

Custom Rig 2:
Windows Media Center Edition 2005
Vista RC1
Vista RTM
Now used as a backup gaming rig if I don't want to haul my main one around, currently lended to a friend - running XP MCE 2005 because it's easy.

Custom Rig 3 (Current Main System):
Windows XP Home (funny story - won the system in my sig, which has dual sockets, and they gave me XP home.. which only works with one socket :) )
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit after 6 months or so had passed since launch, to allow for drivers to catch up
Windows 7 Beta 1
Windows 7 RC1
Windows 7 RTM

Laptop 1
Windows XP home
Windows XP PRo
Also ran OS X in a VM when Apple was just coming out with intel macs

Laptop 2
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Ubuntu Desktop (forget which version)
Now used as a portable server for when I don't want to bring my huge server to LANs.

Laptop 3 (current):
Vista Home Premium (came with it, second I got it I swapped it out)
Vista Ultimate x64
Windows 7 RC1 (Need to re-install with RTM bits from TechNet)

Pocket PC 1 - Palm IIIc:
PalmOS 3
PalmOS 4

Pocket PC 2 - some viewsonic PPC:
Windows Mobile 4

Pocket PC 3 - Treo Phone:
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6

Pocket PC 4 - iPhone
iPhone OS 2.0
iPhone OS 2.0.1
iPhone OS 2.1
iPhone OS 2.2
iPhone OS 3.0 (current, waiting on the PC redsn0w app to jailbreak 3.1)
 
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1. win 95
2. linux redhat 5.0 cant remember the version
3. freeBSD
4. Win 98
5. Win ME :(
8. Win XP
9. Win XP 64bit
10. Win Vista 64BIT

waiting for SP1 on win 7 then ill move on
 
Heh this looks like fun.

DOS 3.0
DOS 5.0
OS2 Warp
DOS 6.0
DOS 6.22 w/ windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98
Windows ME (shortest lived install was total crap)
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows XP 64
Windows Vista Ultimate 64
 
DOS
WINDOWS 3.1
WINDOWS 3.11
WINDOWS 95
WINDOWS 98 (I skipped SE)
WINDOWS ME
WINDOWS XP
WINDOWS VISTA
WINDOWS VISTA 64-BIT
WINDOWS 7 BETA 32-BIT / UBUNTU
WINDOWS 7 RC 64-BIT
WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE 64-BIT (Got mine in the mail earlier this week)
 
Not counting "Family" computers...

Desktop PC1
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Home Premium

Desktop PC2
Windows Vista Home Premium x64

Laptop PC
Windows XP MCE
Windows 7 RC x64
Windows 7 Professional x64
 
Windows 98SE (~2 years)
Windows 2000 (~3 years) w/ Gentoo Linux dual boot
Windows XP (~4 years) w/ Gentoo Linux dual boot
Windows Vista UE x64 (~2 year)
Windows 7 x64 RTM (~1 month)

After a month with Windows 7 RTM, and some time toying with the BETA's / RC's, I am thoroughly pleased.
 
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