[Tfug] (Fwd) What's your favorite OS?

[Bowie J. Poag]

The oldest OS I've ever worked with, to my knowledge, did not have a name.


There's a mass spectrometer in the basement of Old Chem at U of A thats been
there since 1970...its basically a robot arm with an x-ray emitter on the
end of it. Its controlled by what I was told was cannibalized a PDP-9. It
was powered by a command line interface, and had no storage that I was aware
of. You basically had a prompt, and had to poke in directions to the machine
to control the robot arm manually using an old dumb terminal. Rumor has it
they are exceptionally rare antiques, that DEC only made a couple hundred of
them.

A touching story:   http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/z0109.htm






----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith J Davey" <kjdavey@earthlink.net>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] (Fwd) What's your favorite OS?


> Himmm....  well the oldest OS I have worked with is probably VMS (not sure
> what level it was but it was old....)  Fiddled with VM/ESA which might be
> older, but was never really a user....  However the topic is favorite and
> for me that would still have to be FreeBSD.  Though AmigaOS was kinda cool
> too.
>
> Keith Davey
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry McGregor" <micros@azstarnet.com>
> To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] (Fwd) What's your favorite OS?
>
>
> > One word: Lisa
> >
> > Yes, I have one somewhere around this house, along with a number of TI
> > 99/4A systems, and other "vintage" systems.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ammon Lauritzen wrote:
> >
> > > Heh, why stop there? I have some lovely memories of Windows 2.0, Mac
> > > System 5.0, and of the old Atari OS (the heck whatever that was
called).
> > >
> > > Chris Mathis wrote:
> > > > i think i have a copy of it around here some where...
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Chris Mathis" <christophermathis@cox.net>
> > > > To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:07 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Tfug] (Fwd) What's your favorite OS?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>dos 3.0 !!!!!!
> > > >>----- Original Message -----
> > > >>From: "Anthony Hess" <tony@engr.arizona.edu>
> > > >>To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> > > >>Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:00 PM
> > > >>Subject: Re: [Tfug] (Fwd) What's your favorite OS?
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>>Windows 3.1 .. YES!
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