Comments on: Operating System Overview: Quick Notes on the Biggest

By: jonesy

jonesy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:33:00 +0000

for Rick:

Yes, Atari had it's own OS, TOS, on ROM. Went through seven or eight versions, if memory serves.

One attraction, having a 68k CPU, was the relative ease of running other OSes – MiNT being a common alternative for the geekier; sorry, don't recall if BEOS was one of them.

By: jonesy

jonesy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:33:00 +0000

for Rick:
Yes, Atari had it’s own OS, TOS, on ROM. Went through seven or eight versions, if memory serves.
One attraction, having a 68k CPU, was the relative ease of running other OSes – MiNT being a common alternative for the geekier; sorry, don’t recall if BEOS was one of them.

By: Locke

Locke — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:03:00 +0000

I work for a motel as a second job and we have SCO UNIX running on a Pentium 100 as the hotel management system. The machine was set up for only that purpose and is running a program called ImagInn which was last updated in 1999. The whole thing is stored on a 1.3GB hard drive and has 16MB of RAM! The owner of the motel doesn't even know the root password so it couldn't be modified or upgraded if they wanted to, but since it's UNIX, it probably will work perfectly until the hard drive fails.

By: Locke

Locke — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:03:00 +0000

I work for a motel as a second job and we have SCO UNIX running on a Pentium 100 as the hotel management system. The machine was set up for only that purpose and is running a program called ImagInn which was last updated in 1999. The whole thing is stored on a 1.3GB hard drive and has 16MB of RAM! The owner of the motel doesn’t even know the root password so it couldn’t be modified or upgraded if they wanted to, but since it’s UNIX, it probably will work perfectly until the hard drive fails.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:17:00 +0000

I'll have to suggest two additions. First, define the difference between the Gnome and KDE interfaces, as these account for the differences in many mainstream linux distros (ubuntu vs kubuntu for example).

Also, Linspire/Freespire would be a good idea as well for being one of the main marketed/sold linux distros out there, same with SUSE linux.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:17:00 +0000

I’ll have to suggest two additions. First, define the difference between the Gnome and KDE interfaces, as these account for the differences in many mainstream linux distros (ubuntu vs kubuntu for example).

Also, Linspire/Freespire would be a good idea as well for being one of the main marketed/sold linux distros out there, same with SUSE linux.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:17:00 +0000

Also, Linspire/Freespire would be a good idea as well for being one of the main marketed/sold linux distros out there, same with SUSE linux.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:37:00 +0000

Debian++

I may be mostly an Ubuntu user, but Debian's great too. It (Etch, I mean) just doesn't support my laptop's hardware properly. For an old box, nothing's better than a stripped-down Debian install.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:37:00 +0000

Debian++

I may be mostly an Ubuntu user, but Debian’s great too. It (Etch, I mean) just doesn’t support my laptop’s hardware properly. For an old box, nothing’s better than a stripped-down Debian install.

By: krillz

krillz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:08:00 +0000

Dude debian should be on that list, come on I know ubuntu origins is from debian but they have developed a lot more packages, newer updates etc quicker.

But still debian is a very good distribution that many people use!

By: krillz

krillz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:08:00 +0000

Dude debian should be on that list, come on I know ubuntu origins is from debian but they have developed a lot more packages, newer updates etc quicker.

But still debian is a very good distribution that many people use!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:43:00 +0000

Let's see:

BTOS/CTOS (Convergent Technologies/Burroughs Technology OS … desktop networking and shared resources in 1982!)

PrimeOS (mainframe)

HDOS (Heathkit H-89 operating system … pre MS-DOS)

OS/2 (the OTHER IBM PC OS … and no, not half an OS!)

BEOS (68000 based OS)

Pre Mac Apple OS

OS9 (more than just Apple)

Didn't Atari have an OS of their own or did they use BEOS?

Regards!