Any OS Warriors out there?

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So in years past were any of you OS bigots? I was a major OS/2 fanatic from 1991-1996. I lived and breathed OS/2 during those days. Hard to believe one could get so much into a piece of software.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I refused to upgrade from DOS 6.22 until some time in '97.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Were you using Desqview or anything like that?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I started life in Dos then moved to DoubleDos (ya, anyone remember that?) and on to DesqView when I bought a copy of PC-Board and ran a 3 node BBS. DV did me for a while but when WFW came out, I switced my BBS over. I was always into Windows (since it's inception) and my friends had a ball laughing as I typed into "Write" on my screaming 286-8.

Then, along came OS/2. I was immediately hooked. I was a member of Team OS/2 for as long as I could hang on... alas, it wasn't meant to be.

Now, I'm on Win2k and relatively happy.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Windows 3.11 for word processing, but my hardware wasn't that great to play the current games, and I didn't like the idea of my text only interface being permanently replaced. Seeing the way 3.11 behaved was enough to put me off making Windows my only option. Actually I never ran 95 for more than a few weeks, I switched to NT4, then to 98se for a little while (big mistake, horrible OS), then back to 2k. I'm not too keen on upgrading to XP, but may give in after a while, see how it pans out for everyone else. I wasn't very impressed with RC1 at all, and am not going to bother downloading RC2 now it's available on MSDN.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
CBM64....then Dos 4.1.....then Dos 5 then Dos 6.22 then Windblows 3.11....ad nauseum....
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
http://www.calmira.org kept me out of 32-bit Windows until 1998, and switching between Windowses for a few years after that... the speed difference is incredible...

and OZ for my Z88 rules!
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my first os was windows 95 so it's not so long ago
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
fearoffours, I just sold my last STe at a garage sale last year (one of the 8MB Mega/STe models). Ah, those were the days.

Brad, other fans of O/S2, you should come work where I work. The ENTIRE (almost) network is running O/S2 (1000+ computers). Now, what I want you to keep in mind is that this is a MAJOR bank here in Canada (and worldwide). I've seen some systems that are running NT but about 98% is O/S2...verrrryyy creepy. What's worse was that the trainers of the training classes just assumed we knew what the icons were for closing windows, minimizing, etc. I think I understand why it is they're running O/S2 (primarily for WorkSpace) and I can't help but think how nice all this lovely new PIII's would be running 2000 with DesktopX in user mode...
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Basically, VMS rulz:

It's really amazing: all the 'great advancements' in operating systems were apparentely stolen from Digital (now part of Compaq).

32-bit in win95? Hell, they did it the seventies.

Windows NT? Based on VMS, created by engineers who left Digital.

Microsoft COM? yeah, you've guessed.
And the same applies to RAID technology, not to mention clustering and whatnot.

But the thing is,
VMS is also boring and bureaucratic.
So you just can't have it all, I guess
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to dev on Unix variants way, way back and thought it was the greatest thing. Thought CDE/Motif kicked Windows 3.1's butt graphically.

Then I ended up doing dev on VMS. E-roz is right, VMS may have been boring but technically it was real sweet

I finally ended dev'ing on Windows NT/2000 servers. And this has to be my favorite and I've never wanted to go back.

I totally missed the whole OS/2 and Macintosh things.

I tried BEOS 4.5. Interesting, nice tech in its messaging system and file system but ultimately it turned your pc into a boat anchor. You just kinda stared at it.

I also gave Linux a try. For me, it felt like a flashback to the 80's, skinny ties and all.

Oh yeah, I forget. IBM AS/400. Hands down the worst system I ever dev'ed on. Yuck. Phooey. Blech.


Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BeOS rocks.
I'd hardly compare it to a boat anchor, though. Sure, its not gonna be first choice for office use, but it kicks as a media station. Spend enough time with it and you'll start wondering how you put up with everything else.

Just my 2cents again...