Operating Systems I Have Known

UNIX, of course...

Random & Strange

Or, perhaps this is just ancient history?

• Data General RDOS (dunt esk)
• Decision Systems Timeshared BASIC
• CalidoSCOPE (U.C. Berkeley's hacked up version of CDC SCOPE for the 6400)
• DEC TENEX (or was it BBN's?)
• DEC TOPS-20
• DEC RSTS/E
• DEC VAX/VMS (ick)
• MIT ITS
• Stanford WAITS
• Symbolics Genera 7 (a LISP system)
• Microsoft MS/DOS (though I have tried to avoid it)
• Apple System 6
• Apple System 7 (now "MacOS")

These days, I use a combination of MacOS and NetBSD (a free Berkeley UNIX that runs on 22 different platforms! No hardware lock-in for me!), because that works well for me. MacOS is a pleasure to use (except when it crashes), and UNIX is really easy to program to do whatever data manipulations I want (and it's always as fast as the hardware I put under it - a very low overhead OS).

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