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Zx spectrum --> msx-dos --> ms-dos --dr-dos --> win95 --> Suse (before it was bought by novell) --> win98 --> debian
Holy CRAP, am I literally the oldest person here?
CP/M, with the 8" disks
Then DOS -> Windows -> Linux (Mandrake, then tried a few different ones, then Debian and stuck with Debian)
You’ve got me beat. I’ve only seen 8" disks in coworkers “check out this shit” collection.
I started with the last version of DOS, 6.2, on PC.
Unless you count the Amstrad CPC464 I had before that? Ran on tapes, disks were futuristic!
Which of us is older? I’m not sure it natters. What matters is that the kids will never understand the elegance of a command line interface or of running out of memory to store your code.
Haha yeah I did some tapes. There was some crazy thing that hooked up to my TV at home that used cassette tapes.
And yeah, BBS culture, and programming on some of the old school machines, PEEK and POKE and pre-OSX Macs, and segmented memory in the 8088-286 era. To this day I have never really understood what the point of segmented memory was, but that was what we had back in the day, and we were grateful.
I also got to do some programming at a place that had one of the massive Onyx2 machines. It lived in a whole separate room and was the size of a refrigerator. Good stuff.
some crazy thing that hooked up to my TV at home that used cassette tapes.
Sounds like my first computer, Tandy Color Computer from Radio Shack. Had it hooked to the TV via RF, & learned to program in BASIC.
Ah, the precious main memory… Let’s see if we can’t get this mouse driver to load in upper memory to save me some precious main memory…
Yep, and then DOS 5 coming in like space program technology, that could put the whole OS in high memory and give you 640 kb all for the user programs. And it had a DISK CACHE (which for the most part didn’t work).
Godlike I tell you
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You’re probably about my age. I was just late getting into computers. First attempt at university was dumb terminals connected to some Unix host. Failed everything and dropped out. Went back a few years later and had 8086 based PCs booting DOS off diskettes.
First OS for me would be Windows XP.
First Linux I’ve tried using could technically be whatever version of Android was on my mom’s Droid phone.
First desktop Linux would be some version of Ubuntu around 2014-2015
First OS: TRSDOS 1.3
First Linux distro: Slackware 4
apple2c, commadore64
Commodore 64 here, too.
First Linux distro was Ubuntu.
samesies
First Linux: tails First os: XP
First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.
If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.
Windows → Mint → Windows → Void → NixOS
Technically (but only very technically as we basically never used them and they were obsolete at the time already) it would have been a version of Acorn MOS but realistically it was Windows 3.1.
Windows '95. My mom didn’t know the concept of backwards incompatibility and got it second hand in 2001. It was hard to find something that would run on it beyond Doom.
First OS was C64’s Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS, if that even counts as an OS, the next was Amiga 500’s AmigaOS
First Linux distro was Fedora
MS-DOS 5 or 6. I guess technically I used whatever Apple IIes had, first, but really I just loaded games from disk.
Mac OS 7. By the mid-2000s, I adopted Arch Linux after looking into some other Linux distributions.
Windows Vista 👶
Technically it was Kali on a VM. But I had absolutely no clue what I was doing (I was 9 years old) so I gave up.
Then I tried Ubuntu to get past my parental controls. Same thing.
Eventually had success with Mint 5 years later. Never looked back.
