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

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 16 Sep 2002 at 23:33, Keith J Davey  wrote:

> Himmm....  well the oldest OS I have worked with is probably VMS (not sure

In the mid-1980's I worked for a company with a VAX 750 running VMS; this was 
after working for a local company with a Prime 750 running PrimOS. While I 
was at the former company, I did some field geophysics on a portable computer 
with 8" floppies running the UCSD p-system for an OS.  That was the first 
micro that I used, but while I was there I bought a Zenith Z-152 - a 4.77MHz 
8088 box with 320k RAM and two 360k floppies running MS-DOS (2.0? 3.0?).  I 
remember souping that up with an 8Mhz V20 chip, more RAM, and a 20mb hard 
disk (oh heaven!).

My first computer login was on a computer at college more than 30 years ago; 
the president of the college was John Kemeny, of Kemeny & Kurtz (inventors of 
BASIC).  I have no idea what the OS was for that machine -- I had no idea 
what the machine even was as I was a geology major at the time, but a little 
research on the web turns up the fact that it was a GE-635 running a custom-
written OS called DTSS.  But I didn't really do any work on this, except for 
some Fortran IV programming classes.

Angus

P.S. back then we used carve our own ICs from wood.
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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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