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

[Tom Ponsford]

Bowie J. Poag wrote:
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> The oldest OS I've ever worked with, to my knowledge, did not have a name.
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> 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

It was probably OS/8 or the older version of what was to become RT-11.

You guys haven't lived until you sysgened a pdp with 64k or even 28k of 
word memory.

The OS  I'm spending these past hot summer nights with is RSX-11M, only 
God knows why!

And now a little tune!!

Sung to the tune of that ol time rock and roll !

Just take that PRO down off the shelf
and let me program it by myself.
A half a meg's just fine by me,
I love that old-time PDP.

Refrain:
I love that old-time PDP
The kinda CPU that sets you free.
Instruction set looks good to me.
I love that old-time PDP.

Don't try to take me to ZK.
Won't make it, I won't last a day.
I love that old-time PDP.

Refrain

Say I'm old fashioned, say I'm over the hill,
say I'm outmoded, oh say what you will.
Those new CPU's haven't got the same thrill,
I love that old-time PDP.

Refrain

You gotta balance their complexity
'gainst functionality and quality
The words are twice as long as I need,
I love that old-time PDP.

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> ----- 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?
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>>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?
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>>>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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Windows 3.1 .. YES!
>>>>>>>
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