Computer Experience Evolution

[Jussi Kukkonen]

Why, in 1984 I ran CP/M on my laptop.


... Ok, it wasn't mine, it was my fathers.

... It wasn't a laptop either. It was a Kaypro II "portable", which meant it had a handle and weighed less than 15kg.

... And I really had no idea what to do with it.

Nevertheless, it's what got me interested in these things. Here is a picture of a similar machine (sadly I have no pictures of the one we had):

[ember]

I don't know if that counts as an operating system... (Commodore Basic V2) But the boot times were optimal.

Hehe - that's true. And you could really instantly start programming *remembers all the lines of hex code he typed in from magazines* ...
But the loading times for games were ... hmm ... a bit suboptimal without TurboLoader or one of its friends

[rpgcyco]

The first OS I used, was Mac OS "Classic" at school in Year 1. The OS that was on my first PC was Windows 95 [100Mhz, 16MB, 346MB HDD, Win 95]. That PC is now resting peaceful in some dump somewhere.

- Rpg Cyco

[Samuel]

Oric Extended Basic v1
ORIC 1 was my first computer, not sure if it qualifies as an operating system though

10 print "hello world!";
20 goto 10

was about as far as i got

[Malphas]

My first computer was one of these:

[kassetra]

If whatever ran on the VIC-20 can properly be called an OS, it would be that

HA! I'm not the only one! The VIC-20 and the oh so lovely TRASH-80.... those two would be my "first" OS experiences...

[stimpack]

Spectrum Basic, yes the OS was a BASIC interpreter, really pretty nifty when compared to MSDOS.

1st "real" OS, Workbench 1.3 on an Amiga, which was better than versions on Windows 10 years later

[public_void]

Whoa, my first OS was Win 95, not as old as some of the ones others are talking about. Then Win 98 -> Win XP -> WinXP dual boot with Ubuntu. But it kinda shows what a stong influence MS have on the OS market. I've only known MS OS's, and now I'm really enjoy the different with a Linux distro. Today though, most children will be introduced to a MS OS and live with it, not really experiencing any other OS, kinda sad.

[nsa_767]

Hi there,

My first OS (which I actively used) was MS-DOS, together with MS Windows 3.11 (Windows For Work-groups)... LOL, that was the last and only good version of Windows ever!

Anyway, by reading these posts, it seems to me that the average Linux user tends to be somewhat more mature than the average Windows user... (Well, that is if you discount all those large accounting firms...)

A survey of the average Linux user's age might be interesting?

[Malphas]

Anyway, by reading these posts, it seems to me that the average Linux user tends to be somewhat more mature than the average Windows user...

Only because the Linux userbase for the home desktop market is a tiny minority, and even then I doubt it. Most of the computers and operating systems people are mentioning are from the eighties, that's hardly the stone-age; there are plenty of Windows users over the age of thirty-five or however old you'd have to be to have been old enough to use a computer when those systems were around. A better argument might be that the average Linux user has been using computers for longer than the average Linux user.