55 posts
Brazil
Posted 01 January 2014 - 07:08 PM
The title says all.
My first OS has: Win 95
My first OS has: Win 95
This is a read-only snapshot of the ComputerCraft forums,
taken in April 2020.
What has your first OS?
Started by Felype, 01 January 2014 - 06:08 PM
419 posts
your hardrive
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:28 AM
Windows 95 or 98 I can't remember I was like four
125 posts
Chunk 0
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:54 AM
Locomotive Basic 1.1, if that even counts as an OS.
252 posts
The Netherlands
Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:41 AM
My father showed me MS DOS, but the first I actually used was Windows 98, then Windows 95. Logic.
2151 posts
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:54 AM
Yep, good (if you can call it that) old Windows 95.
Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
7508 posts
Australia
Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:01 AM
Simultaneously Windows 3.1 and 95.
I would assume considering the same mistake was made in the post as well that English is not the native language to the poster.Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
Edited on 02 January 2014 - 04:02 AM
404 posts
St. Petersburg
Posted 02 January 2014 - 05:18 AM
mac os 8
just barely though. os 9 came out a few months later
just barely though. os 9 came out a few months later
7083 posts
Tasmania (AU)
Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:24 AM
I honestly don't know. First computer my parents got was an Amstrad, on which I would occasionally fire up PC-DOS (basically the same as what it booted into, but fancier) or GEM. I have no idea what its initial environment was.
125 posts
Chunk 0
Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:54 AM
CP/M?I honestly don't know. First computer my parents got was an Amstrad, on which I would occasionally fire up PC-DOS (basically the same as what it booted into, but fancier) or GEM. I have no idea what its initial environment was.
Edited on 02 January 2014 - 05:54 AM
7083 posts
Tasmania (AU)
Posted 02 January 2014 - 08:34 AM
Nah, I'd dug around the wiki before posting and decided it probably wasn't that.
Digging around further now, I'm fairly certain the machine would've been a PC1640 with a 20mb HDD instead of the secondary floppy drive (640K was written in large proud letters on the front). This would imply that it booted into MS DOS 3.something, DOS Plus likely being the variant I could load on top of that. It had access to GW-BASIC and BASIC2, the latter of which I made a graphical hangman game out of.
The machine was purchased by my parents as a work system for their plant center - they actually payed for it with plants. Since it was second-hand I'm not sure if it came with the original "install" disks, but it certainly came with a lot of the things and I still happen to have most (all?) of them, along with a couple of 5 1/4" floppy drives (the machine itself eventually wound up with some of my grandparents, who unfortunately shipped it off to the tip when they eventually upgraded - if I'd ever known they were planning that I'd've put my foot down on them holding it until I could take it).
This is a computer that'd take nearly a second to execute an ECHO statement in a batch file (most of which time was likely spent in reading the line from the drive, which produced a unique sort of whirring/beeping noise as it did so). I got a copy of Commander Keen 1 for it off a friend's computer - for like a month we couldn't get it to work, starting the game would make the computer appear to stall and we'd have to reboot it. Eventually I figured out that actually, unlike my friend's computer (which could run Windows and stuff and started the game in like two seconds), the Amstrad simply required two whole minutes to load the game. On a modern system under DOSBox you'd be doing well to spot that it had loading messages - when we eventually upgraded to a 486DX2 they snapped by in the blink of an eye.
Digging around further now, I'm fairly certain the machine would've been a PC1640 with a 20mb HDD instead of the secondary floppy drive (640K was written in large proud letters on the front). This would imply that it booted into MS DOS 3.something, DOS Plus likely being the variant I could load on top of that. It had access to GW-BASIC and BASIC2, the latter of which I made a graphical hangman game out of.
The machine was purchased by my parents as a work system for their plant center - they actually payed for it with plants. Since it was second-hand I'm not sure if it came with the original "install" disks, but it certainly came with a lot of the things and I still happen to have most (all?) of them, along with a couple of 5 1/4" floppy drives (the machine itself eventually wound up with some of my grandparents, who unfortunately shipped it off to the tip when they eventually upgraded - if I'd ever known they were planning that I'd've put my foot down on them holding it until I could take it).
This is a computer that'd take nearly a second to execute an ECHO statement in a batch file (most of which time was likely spent in reading the line from the drive, which produced a unique sort of whirring/beeping noise as it did so). I got a copy of Commander Keen 1 for it off a friend's computer - for like a month we couldn't get it to work, starting the game would make the computer appear to stall and we'd have to reboot it. Eventually I figured out that actually, unlike my friend's computer (which could run Windows and stuff and started the game in like two seconds), the Amstrad simply required two whole minutes to load the game. On a modern system under DOSBox you'd be doing well to spot that it had loading messages - when we eventually upgraded to a 486DX2 they snapped by in the blink of an eye.
Edited on 02 January 2014 - 07:39 AM
125 posts
Chunk 0
Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:14 AM
Is that code for they sold weed?they actually payed for it with plants
55 posts
Brazil
Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:22 AM
Sorry for the error.Yep, good (if you can call it that) old Windows 95.
Also, shouldn't the title be "What was your first OS?"
7083 posts
Tasmania (AU)
Posted 02 January 2014 - 09:50 AM
No, but I got payed for weeding.Is that code for they sold weed?
15 posts
Posted 02 January 2014 - 11:44 AM
Not sure. I only know that it was Windows 95, 98, or 2000.
15 posts
Posted 02 January 2014 - 12:49 PM
I used Xubuntu, It's a Ubuntu based OS
then Windows XP
then Windows XP
404 posts
St. Petersburg
Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:36 AM
xubuntu? the xubuntu that was first released in 2006?
127 posts
CubeSpace
Posted 03 January 2014 - 02:38 AM
The first OS I actually used was Windows 95 but the oldest OS I've used is MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1.
770 posts
In My Lonely Little Computer Corner
Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:40 AM
I think it was W95. :P/>
Edit: the oldest I've used is prodos 16 for the apple ii gs.
Edit: the oldest I've used is prodos 16 for the apple ii gs.
Edited on 03 January 2014 - 04:45 PM
882 posts
Behind you.
Posted 03 January 2014 - 11:01 AM
Mine was XP…
Oldest OS I've used would probably be BASIC, rewritten for RedPower2
Oldest OS I've used would probably be BASIC, rewritten for RedPower2
1583 posts
Germany
Posted 03 January 2014 - 08:06 PM
Idk lol… i have a mixture of Windows 3.1, MS DOS and Windows 95 xD
2151 posts
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted 03 January 2014 - 08:12 PM
Mine was XP…
Oldest OS I've used would probably be BASIC, rewritten for RedPower2
BASIC is a language, not on OS, isn't it? An OS written for RP2 wouldn't be more than a few years old.
882 posts
Behind you.
Posted 03 January 2014 - 10:46 PM
I think it is called MineOS, but there's a way to get BASIC on there. and sorry for the derp :P/>
52 posts
Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:19 PM
I don't remember what mine was, I thinkit was Windows XP but my favorite OS is kind of a tie between chromium os and ubuntu, but for gaming? DEFINEATLY ubuntu
571 posts
Some Fish Bowl in Ohio.
Posted 04 January 2014 - 01:52 PM
My first was XP. But the latest I've used was 95 or 98.
175 posts
Posted 04 January 2014 - 02:32 PM
My first was probably Win95, but I've also used Win3.1. And a bunch of later (but still old) versions like 98/SE, 2000, ME and of course, XP…
8 posts
Bucharest, Romania
Posted 05 January 2014 - 09:53 AM
windows xp. The copmuters came late in my coutry :/
621 posts
U.S.A.
Posted 06 January 2014 - 10:49 AM
W95. Then XP, then Vista corrupted my laptop, now 7.
1852 posts
Sweden
Posted 06 January 2014 - 01:58 PM
This is the order I've changed OS:es
Windows 98 - Windows XP - Windows 7
I like windows :3
Windows 98 - Windows XP - Windows 7
I like windows :3
1220 posts
Earth orbit
Posted 06 January 2014 - 10:47 PM
Hang on…let me put my cane down… FIrst OS I remember playing with was on a Tandy TRS-80 (cassette tape based storage - endlessly adjust speed and volume until it worked). First OS I remember seriously using was on my Apple ][+. It had timing based instead of interrupt based events, built in assembler and BASIC, and you could run Apple DOS, CP/M, and 1 or 2 other OSes if memory serves - so much fun. You could also use a hole punch on cheap floppies to get access to both sides of the media and double the storage. Good times :)/>
235 posts
Germany
Posted 07 January 2014 - 03:14 AM
W98
That was ahm … ya. Everything I remind was the bluescreen ;)/>
That was ahm … ya. Everything I remind was the bluescreen ;)/>
2151 posts
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted 07 January 2014 - 04:47 AM
W98
That was ahm … ya. Everything I remind was the bluescreen ;)/>
Ah good old bluescreens of death…
Apple seems to have caught on to those too, the icon for a Windows PC in the Network file page on a Mac is this:
:P/>
However, saying that, Macs do run in to kernel panics, but I've seen far more BSODs than kernel panics.
Edited on 07 January 2014 - 03:48 AM
55 posts
Brazil
Posted 07 January 2014 - 11:24 AM
Saying about blue screens of death i made one for my OS XDW98
That was ahm … ya. Everything I remind was the bluescreen ;)/>
1114 posts
UK
Posted 07 January 2014 - 11:35 AM
Windows XP, but the oldest OS I used was Windows 3.1
404 posts
St. Petersburg
Posted 07 January 2014 - 01:28 PM
First OS I remember seriously using was on my Apple ][+.
really want to try one of those. too expensive nowadays for what ya get.
1220 posts
Earth orbit
Posted 07 January 2014 - 01:50 PM
I imagine working specimens would be rather pricey considering their age alone. Somewhere in a box in my garage I still have my ][+, a //c (semi-portable), and my friend's old //e - can't imagine selling them, though. Making the switch to PC was a shocker - DOS was weak, basic wasn't 'built-in', nor was an assembler interface, and 8.3 file-names were restrictive…but Windows was interesting, the machine had more than 40x the amount of RAM of my ][+, and gaming at 1024x768 in 256 color at 15+ fps was pretty awesome :)/>First OS I remember seriously using was on my Apple ][+.
really want to try one of those. too expensive nowadays for what ya get.
404 posts
St. Petersburg
Posted 07 January 2014 - 08:45 PM
I imagine working specimens would be rather pricey considering their age alone. Somewhere in a box in my garage I still have my ][+, a //c (semi-portable), and my friend's old //e - can't imagine selling them, though. Making the switch to PC was a shocker - DOS was weak, basic wasn't 'built-in', nor was an assembler interface, and 8.3 file-names were restrictive…but Windows was interesting, the machine had more than 40x the amount of RAM of my ][+, and gaming at 1024x768 in 256 color at 15+ fps was pretty awesome :)/>First OS I remember seriously using was on my Apple ][+.
really want to try one of those. too expensive nowadays for what ya get.
switching away from unix to dos-based is a really painful direction though. such a bad development philosophy.
175 posts
Posted 08 January 2014 - 12:26 AM
Yes yes, can't we try and stay off the fanboyism. :P/>/> It already takes up so much space on the IRC channel.
There's enough anti-windows, anti-mac and people pointing out that linux is a user-hostile mustercluck as it is. *hides*
Actually, truth is, all 3 major OS "families" have major cons, and most people are fairly clear on what they are.
There's enough anti-windows, anti-mac and people pointing out that linux is a user-hostile mustercluck as it is. *hides*
Actually, truth is, all 3 major OS "families" have major cons, and most people are fairly clear on what they are.
Edited on 08 January 2014 - 09:38 AM
5 posts
Posted 05 May 2014 - 04:59 PM
For me, it was MS-DOS. I then switched to Windows 3.11, then Windows XP, then Windows 7.