Operating System

[Dudebusta]

Just curious to see what everyones using. There would be a varied response i think.

i use XP and i tell ya what, its really ****. Id rather go back to 98. more straight forward. XP is too much ****ing around...bill gates is a poof.

 

[LoudMusic]

Has it crossed your mind that maybe there are other options out there? I mean, you didn't even list all the ones that fit your list! I use Windows 2000. Not on the list ... and it's probably the most common of all right now.

How about all the Macintosh users? Or Linux? There are even BSD, Solaris, and Amiga users still around.

And to further your expression of ill-educated life you didn't take the time to do a simple search and find out that this question has been asked more thoroughly several times before.

~LoudMusic

 

[sn00pie]

*sigh*

 

[MazKid]

XP all the way, I love the look of it and it works perfectly fine for our useage...

Our older PC(my hybridding pc) had 95, the we upgraded to 98, then it got messed up really bad from a virus or something, then my dad installed the 98 upgrade without the 95 first, and it was screwed up ever since...he wouldn't let me mess with it till I put it in my room after we got the Dell...in a day I figured out the problem, reinstalled everything, and it was back to new...he was mad cause he thought that he could fix it himself...

 

[troy]

Windows ME

 

[F2002]

Windows ME at the mo, seems to be the best I've had and I've been through Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows XP !

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
Has it crossed your mind that maybe there are other options out there? I mean, you didn't even list all the ones that fit your list! I use Windows 2000. Not on the list ... and it's probably the most common of all right now.

How about all the Macintosh users? Or Linux? There are even BSD, Solaris, and Amiga users still around.

And to further your expression of ill-educated life you didn't take the time to do a simple search and find out that this question has been asked more thoroughly several times before.

~LoudMusic

Kudos to LoudMusic!

I'm a Mac user... OS 8.6

 

[F2002]

Most common is ME and XP, I only know 2 people who have 2000

 

[sn00pie]

Originally posted by F2002
Most common is ME and XP, I only know 2 people who have 2000

My dad also uses 2000, there: now you know 3.

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by youth_cycler

Kudos to LoudMusic!

I'm a Mac user... OS 8.6

8.6 was nice. It's one of the more stable releases along the road of Mac OS. At work I've got a few machines running 8.6 and everything else is running 9.0.4. I'd like all of our software to be available natively for OS X so I can install the OS on a UFS disk instead of HFS. But I'm afraid it will be the end of the year before that option is wholey available.

In the mean time, I've seen good things about 9.2.whatever so I'm thinking about moving up to that. The problem is that it renames the "Applications" folder to "Applications (OS 9)" (in preperation for OS X), which completely destroys the functionality of our two most important apps.

If the oportunity presents itself for you to upgrade to OS X, do everything in your power to stay away from any Classic apps. If you can do this 100%, then start with a UFS drive instead of an HFS drive. Your experiences will thousands of times more enjoyable.

~LoudMusic

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by rufrgt_sn00pie2001


My dad also uses 2000, there: now you know 3.

How about me, all my friends, and 80% of the business world? The most common is 98SE, though, because it was sold for nearly 4 years.

~LoudMusic

 

[sn00pie]

Originally posted by LoudMusic


How about me, all my friends, and 80% of the business world? The most common is 98SE, though, because it was sold for nearly 4 years.

~LoudMusic

80% of the business world? Alright, so now we know 6.

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
8.6 was nice. It's one of the more stable releases along the road of Mac OS. At work I've got a few machines running 8.6 and everything else is running 9.0.4. I'd like all of our software to be available natively for OS X so I can install the OS on a UFS disk instead of HFS. But I'm afraid it will be the end of the year before that option is wholey available.

In the mean time, I've seen good things about 9.2.whatever so I'm thinking about moving up to that. The problem is that it renames the "Applications" folder to "Applications (OS 9)" (in preperation for OS X), which completely destroys the functionality of our two most important apps.

If the oportunity presents itself for you to upgrade to OS X, do everything in your power to stay away from any Classic apps. If you can do this 100%, then start with a UFS drive instead of an HFS drive. Your experiences will thousands of times more enjoyable.

~LoudMusic

Um, I'll be totally honest with you... I have no clue what UFS or HFS means...

Please enlighten me.

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by youth_cycler

Um, I'll be totally honest with you... I have no clue what UFS or HFS means...

Please enlighten me.

HFS is Hiarchle File System

File Systems are basically the way file are stored and retrieved from the hard drive. HFS was the file system that Steve Wozniak (sp?) created for the first Macintosh 'back in the day'. At the time it was a good thing, but by today's standards ... it's a bloated load of crap.

UFS is Unix File System - the whole idea behind it is that it can scale from a 1 byte file up to a 10 gigabyte file and there is no loss in efficiency. It's faster, more stable, and generates fewer file errors.

~LoudMusic

 

[F2002]

NT is one of the most common buisness and e-commerce OS'

And I've never used Mac, more reliable then Windows ?(not that it is reliable)

 

[sn00pie]

I guess the new Macintosh OS' are pretty good. The at least look good. What are they called... aargh I forgot! Aren't they plainly called "OS 1, 2, 3 etc..."?

 

[sn00pie]

LoudMusic, have you ever seen the movie: Pirates of silicon valley? I think you'd enjoy it.

 

[F2002]

I think I seen that Pirates of Silicon Vally...is that the movie where Mac goes big or something...sommet to do with PC's anyways

 

[made in holland]

Windows ME. And it sux

 

[space]

Where's DOS 6.1? I want my DOS

C:\DOS
C:\DOS RUN
RUN DOS RUN

 

[space]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
Has it crossed your mind that maybe there are other options out there? I mean, you didn't even list all the ones that fit your list! I use Windows 2000. Not on the list ... and it's probably the most common of all right now.

How about all the Macintosh users? Or Linux? There are even BSD, Solaris, and Amiga users still around.

And to further your expression of ill-educated life you didn't take the time to do a simple search and find out that this question has been asked more thoroughly several times before.

~LoudMusic

sssshhhhhhh......


[whisper]Do you hear that?[/whisper]


Thats the sound of LoudMusic ripping you a new one

 

[LoudMusic]

Mac OS was the original operating system developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac roughly the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen were working on Windows. That was Macintosh OS. I think it was some time in the mid 80s.

A revision of that was called Mac OS 2, late 80s. Ten years later they got to Mac OS 8.6 at about the end of the 90s and into the new Mellinium.

All that work was scrapped because, basically, it was crap and they finally realized it. They adopted an operating system called BSD (Berkeley University Software Distribution). Berkeley is a school for really really really really smart folks (: There are many forms of BSD, one that Apple had assisted in, and is now using for its latest OS, uses what is called the "Mach Kernal" (the kernal is essentially the single app that runs the computer). The Mach Kernal is the end-all be-all of the computer industry. The developers believed that it had reached its most advanced state and no improvements could be made to the kernal. It was complete, and nothing could ever compare. Sounds like a pretty good thing to have control of, eh?

Enter ... Mac OS X, built on BSD and the Mach Kernal. Unfortunately Apple is running the project ... and it's still a Mac - mostly crap.

I've seen Pirates of the yadda yadda. It's the early days of Microsoft and Apple battling for patents and copyrights for the graphical desktop environment. You kids probably don't even know about computers that don't have a mouse and icons.

~LoudMusic

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by space




sssshhhhhhh......


[whisper]Do you hear that?[/whisper]


Thats the sound of LoudMusic ripping you a new one

I have a tendancy to do that ... don't I ... maybe I should lighten up a bit (:









Nah! Stupid WANKERS!

~LoudMusic

 

[Dudebusta]

oh well so sorry that i cant be a perfectionist like you. ya get that.

 

[Klostrophobic]

*yawn*

Windows 98.

 

[Josh]

I'm currently running Windows XP Home Edition...

 

[ALPHA]

Originally posted by F2002
Windows ME at the mo, seems to be the best I've had and I've been through Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows XP !

Windows Me *Cough Cough* - CD = Coffee Coaster...and since I don't drink coffee I wouldn't need the CD at all!

- All I'm aying is Windows Me sucks, which it does it has more bugs than a goat with ring worm and diarrhea!

It has the scrapiest code in all the of the Windows 9X Operating Systems.

Oh yeah enough crud about MS I have Windows 98 *Cough* *PC just Froze* * Cough*

Originally Posted by LoudMusic
Mac OS was the original operating system developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac roughly the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen were working on Windows. That was Macintosh OS. I think it was some time in the mid 80s.

A revision of that was called Mac OS 2, late 80s. Ten years later they got to Mac OS 8.6 at about the end of the 90s and into the new Mellinium.

All that work was scrapped because, basically, it was crap and they finally realized it. They adopted an operating system called BSD (Berkeley University Software Distribution). Berkeley is a school for really really really really smart folks (: There are many forms of BSD, one that Apple had assisted in, and is now using for its latest OS, uses what is called the "Mach Kernal" (the kernal is essentially the single app that runs the computer). The Mach Kernal is the end-all be-all of the computer industry. The developers believed that it had reached its most advanced state and no improvements could be made to the kernal. It was complete, and nothing could ever compare. Sounds like a pretty good thing to have control of, eh?

Enter ... Mac OS X, built on BSD and the Mach Kernal. Unfortunately Apple is running the project ... and it's still a Mac - mostly crap.

I've seen Pirates of the yadda yadda. It's the early days of Microsoft and Apple battling for patents and copyrights for the graphical desktop environment. You kids probably don't even know about computers that don't have a mouse and icons.

~LoudMusic

Ok we get the idea you know alot of PC history - stop the jargon! Jeeze HTML is bad enough for me
Nooooooo.........not the 256bit code generated from a robot about 2 cm tall that is 2 million times smarter than Bill Gates with his money.......what is the world coming to?

Oh crud I better shut up now!

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
They adopted an operating system called BSD (Berkeley University Software Distribution). Berkeley is a school for really really really really smart folks (:

Heh heh... my cousin is a professor at Berkeley... his profession is software programming. Also, he's the founder of Inktomi, (the server, for those of you who don't know).

Originally posted by LoudMusic
I've seen Pirates of the yadda yadda. It's the early days of Microsoft and Apple battling for patents and copyrights for the graphical desktop environment. You kids probably don't even know about computers that don't have a mouse and icons.

~LoudMusic

Ooh! Ooh! Those beauts where you had to punch index cards for the instructions, then you had to insert it into the comp, and it would print out what you had it do, right? And what about the ones where you had to literally pick up the phone to connect on a network...

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by youth_cycler


Heh heh... my cousin is a professor at Berkeley... his profession is software programming. Also, he's the founder of Inktomi, (the server, for those of you who don't know).



Ooh! Ooh! Those beauts where you had to punch index cards for the instructions, then you had to insert it into the comp, and it would print out what you had it do, right? And what about the ones where you had to literally pick up the phone to connect on a network...

Actually ... sorta. You're talking about two different eras of computers. Punch cards were before networking. Hell, they were before floppies ... as in the big ass 8" floppy. They were used to store, transfer, and input data into computers for processing.

The phone deal, that was actually the early days of modems. Modems turn analog noise (that static that modems make) into digital data, ones and zeros. So back in the day before the computer could dial a phone, you had to dial the phone then set the receiver on another receiver that was connected to the computer. Basically it was a modem without a dialer. And they were SLOW.

Computers without icons or a mouse: IBM PS2 - It had two floppy drives and ran DOS (disk operating system) which booted off of a 722kb floppy disk. There was no mouse because there wasn't anything to click on; Apple IIe - remember the green screen? Of course not, you're too young.

~LoudMusic

 

[ALPHA]

Green Screen.....like blue screen of death?