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

[Sam Hart]

Since we're all sharing, my first system was a PDP10 running something (I 
was very young at the time, I think it was ITS or TOPS, but I honestly 
don't know). I did an infinite loop counting program in FORTRAN that would 
print out sequential integers (1-) on it's line printer (there was no 
screen). This was the machine that got me into computers when I was 
little. It was running at a local college.

My first systems I owned (8-bit Atari's) had no OS.. just a friendly 
"READY" prompt, unless you swapped the BASIC chip for something like 
Space Invaders... which I did ;-)

But I really cut my teeth on CP/M, and that's what influenced my current 
choices in command line utils (for example, I prefer 'nano' over vi or 
emacs ;-)

begin  quote: On 02-09-18, Tim Pickering wrote:

> How about some of VMS's predecessors like RSTS and TOPS20?
> 
> Then there's CP/M but my oldest has to be George 3 from the old ICL 1900 
> days.

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Sam Hart
University/Work addr. <hart@physics.arizona.edu>
Personal addr. <criswell@geekcomix.com>
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