Your Favorite Non-*nix OS

speter · 10-01-2003, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Gill Bates
i thought it was nix based?

Nope. POSIX compliant, but not *nix based.

The multithreading makes it a very zippy system, even on older machines.

Steve

agiacalone · 10-19-2003, 11:19 PM

Personally, I voted for PalmOS for the same reasons that flapjackboy posted. My other thought was to vote for the Windows OS', but I mainly use those out of necessity, not because I actually WANT to.

Also...what about OpenVMS? I don't actually use it (or even like it), but I know a lot of people that do swear by it.

frieza · 10-19-2003, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
And OSX is Unix based

yeah... but <= macos 9.0 isn't unix based, is it?

Robert0380 · 10-20-2003, 12:09 AM

DOS hands down

kidding

Windows 2000, sometimes XP never 98/Me

Megamieuwsel · 10-20-2003, 12:20 AM

DOS ;best for games.
And before the windows-fanboys start yelling at me :
Take a good hard look at your screen when you start up that Uber-cool game , you're addicted to.
"DOS4GW-protected mode"
That's right : DOS.
Games need direct access to the hardware , not the shell.

zekko · 10-20-2003, 01:41 AM

Ahh, I voted Windows, but I only use it for playing games.

And I know of Wine, but it doesn't seem to work as well

MrSmee · 10-20-2003, 08:38 AM

I guess I'm too old to really "like" windows for the same reason that I really like Linux, I'm still stuck thinking the only time you have any real control is when you've got a STABLE command line to work with....... (for the record, I ran DOS 6.22 up until Win2000 was available)

Smee

Nechos · 10-20-2003, 09:11 AM

well, i'm still on dual boot with win98se wich "the best of the worst" - i like it a lot more than xp or any other win "os" - i know where to find every single file, and i've learned to solve every problem (there's always format c: if everything else fails

My Documents is on D: drive

)

p.s. yes, format c: is dos, and i think i'll vote for dos, since it was great 8 years ago when i used norton commander more often than win explorer - i was spending almost all of my time in dos...95% of he games were for dos - those for windows were minesweeper ans stuff like that...

Kroppus · 10-20-2003, 03:46 PM

*grins*
I'm runing WindowsXP, Windows 1.0 (i finally got it working), Debian, FreDOS and whatever Live-Distro i have just downed.

Freedos or XP is my second choice.

*is still trying to get Duke Nukem 3d to work on FreeDOS*

snerfu · 10-20-2003, 04:02 PM

OpenBEOS. openbeos.org