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Favourite Unpopular OS
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| Randy 2001-07-16, 10:47 am |
| Does anybody have any preferences for non-popular operating systems? | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 10:49 am |
| Sorry, posted twice.  | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 10:50 am |
| I mean other than UNIX/Linux, Windows and Apple. | |
| techdaemon 2001-07-16, 11:05 am |
| I don't have it, but I've used it before and BEOS is awesome. | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 11:13 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by techdaemon
I don't have it, but I've used it before and BEOS is awesome.
Ugh . . . I hated it. Reminded me of a Mac. | |
| techdaemon 2001-07-16, 11:22 am |
| ya, well head of the development team that everyone hated left apple (or got fired) then formed his own little company.. so ya it's like mac, but i think it's better. | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 11:26 am |
| I haven't used it much, just tried it out one day (the d/l version). I heard it was good for MM stuff, but I was never much into that. Still, I wish they would do a little better to give MS and Linux some more competition. It looks ideal for a lot of people, pretty easy to use. | |
| techdaemon 2001-07-16, 11:29 am |
| Whats your favorite distro of linux? I use SUSE, but alot of people tell me that they like slackware. | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 11:30 am |
| I use Slackware most of the time, but use Debian as well. Actually I find that apart from the programs that come with the distro and the desktop environment, most Linux distros are more alike than different. | |
| Randy 2001-07-16, 11:35 am |
| Hey, when you guys vote for 'other' in the poll, could you like post to tell us which OS you have in mind? Please? Pretty please?? Pretty please with sugar on top??? OK, I'm done. | |
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| ccieToBe 2001-07-16, 6:04 pm |
| Well, the least popular OS I've tried and liked is NetBSD, and I don't think that could really be called unpopular. I tried out BeOS once and didn't like it because of the Mac interface. I ran into OS/2 once, but didn't get enough into it enough to have much of an opinion. I think one of the major companies here in Lakeland still uses OS/2 heavily on their corporate network, or at least they were still using it a few months ago. | |
| TW2001 2001-07-16, 11:19 pm |
| Others you ask
I actually like using some of the stuff.I interact a lot with yep..OS/390 MVS VSM.My company moves massive amounts of data through these systems.As well as TPF.Its very much alive and well.We have some real pros...we also use a proprietory legacy database that runs on the mframe.The reason I bring it up is , that system was down for a total of 3.5 hours last quarter....2.5 were scheduled IPL outages.Even our high end Unix boxes dont have those bragging rights | |
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| I used some nameless OS on Commodore VIC 20 at one time. But the first OS'es I did real work on was VM/370, CMS, OS/VS1 and later MVS (aka OS/VS2). I am still using DR DOS and at one time used the OS on LISA (the precursor to MAC). I worked on NOS and a little on NOS/VE (from Control Data, remember them?).
However, I have been on the other side too, taking part in the development of a once succesfull minicomputer operating system called SINTRAN. I did lots of different work there but my main speciality was virtual memory management. I also participated in some less successfull OS development projects.
So I am commited to make SINTRAN my favourite. You know SINTRAN, don't you?
Terje | |
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Originally posted by TW2001
Others you ask
I actually like using some of the stuff.I interact a lot with yep..OS/390 MVS VSM.My company moves massive amounts of data through these systems.As well as TPF.Its very much alive and well.We have some real pros...we also use a proprietory legacy database that runs on the mframe.The reason I bring it up is , that system was down for a total of 3.5 hours last quarter....2.5 were scheduled IPL outages.Even our high end Unix boxes dont have those bragging rights
I worked with MVS for a while. Hated it. But then I was a coder (COBOL) when I worked with it. But it is quite a powerful system. OS/2 may not be unpopular, but not a lot of people seem to be learning it these days. SINTRAN I have never heard of . . . Sinclair, on the other hand . . . | |
| Gareth Leung 2001-07-17, 6:45 am |
| Sorry Randy. Mac OS.  | |
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| depamo 2001-07-17, 9:48 am |
| VAX VMS is my worst pain. Worked on it a couple of times for some atiquated software development. I would choose Unix and OS/2 ten times over before having to work on this OS again (source for the NT environment).
For installation, an old version of Unix or Lynx without slackware on a new computer, or even better, on a new laptop with a PCMCIA network adapter and interchangable drive devices (like scratching on a chalk board to administrators when you say that). Just gotta love Kernel building, like programming in binary, you can do it but is painfully un-enjoyable. | |
| brinkman 2001-07-17, 1:04 pm |
| NNOOOOOO BEOS
I hate it to work with | |
| Sotet 2001-08-30, 10:10 pm |
| I liked using OS/2 even if it has the feel of windoz.
Only saw it at a gummit computer, I had to dual boot my workstation into windows 95 from OS/2 to access some end user programs.
weird setup | |
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| Rosetower 2002-02-14, 11:29 pm |
| Still have it and the kids still play Arkanoid on it. | |
| eric1971 2002-02-15, 10:40 am |
| I voted for OS/2 because I can't believe IBM is still trying to sell that thing! | |
| Deja-vue 2002-02-15, 10:54 am |
| Got to be Windows ME !
The most buggy,problems-ridden,obnoxious,crappy piece of S%$#!,i have ever seen! |
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