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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:21:36 JST nixCraft 🐧

Do you remember the first operating system you used at school/home or workplace? What was it? 🤔

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- Jock Rutherford 🌻 (jockr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:23:28 JST Jock Rutherford 🌻
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  @nixCraft Commodore Basic
  
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- Olle Gladsø (gladso@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:23:37 JST Olle Gladsø
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  @nixCraft Cosmo.
  
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- Erik Ellsinger (ellsinger@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:28:02 JST Erik Ellsinger
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  @nixCraft Windows 98
  
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- bargoderea (bargoderea@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:30:35 JST bargoderea
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  @nixCraft I'll be completely honest, it was Windows 94 (95 beta), I first used it when I was 2 or 3 YO
  I played on it a Tunisian remake of Mario Is Missing!
  
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- liovbt (liovbt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:37:11 JST liovbt
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  @nixCraft Windows 95 at home
  
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- Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:38:29 JST Bob Thomson
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  @nixCraft does ZX BASIC count as an OS? If not it’s MacOS on a classic Mac then VMS on a uni VAX cluster.
  
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- Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:40:43 JST Weasel
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  @nixCraft
  EXEC-8 (Univac 1108)
  Then RT-11 (PDP-11)
  
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- The Planet Repairman (theplanetrepairman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:41:08 JST The Planet Repairman
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  @nixCraft
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRSDOS
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_I_BASIC
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  1. TRSDOS
    
    TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended that it be pronounced triss-doss. TRSDOS should not be confused with Tandy DOS, a version of MS-DOS licensed from Microsoft for Tandy's x86 line of personal computers (PCs). With the original TRS-80 Model I of 1977, TRSDOS was primarily a way of extending the MBASIC (BASIC in ROM) with additional I/O (input/output) commands that worked with disk files rather than the cassette tapes that were used by non-disk Model I systems. Later disk-equipped Model III computers used a completely different version of TRSDOS by Radio Shack which culminated in 1981 with TRSDOS Version 1.3. From 1983 disk-equipped TRS-80 Model 4 computers used TRSDOS Version 6, which was a development of Model III LDOS by Logical Systems, Inc. This last was updated in 1987 and released as LS-DOS 6.3. Completely unrelated was a version of TRSDOS by Radio Shack for its TRS-80 Model II professional computer...
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    Level I BASIC
    
    Level I BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that shipped with the first TRS-80, the TRS-80 Model I. Background Tandy employee Steve Leininger had written the first draft of the NIBL (National Industrial Basic Language) BASIC interpreter for the SC/MP while employed at National Semiconductor . Unable to take that source code with him, he initially hired a consultant to write an interpreter. When that contractor failed to deliver, he adapted Li-Chen Wang's public domain version of Tiny BASIC for the original prototype of the TRS-80 Model I. This required only 2 KB of memory for the interpreter, leaving an average of another 2 KB free for user programs in common 4 KB memory layouts of early machines. During a demonstration to executives, Tandy Corporation's then-President Charles Tandy tried to enter his salary but was unable to do so. This was because Tiny BASIC used 2-byte signed integers with a maximum value of 32,767. The result was a request for floating-point math for the production version.This led to the replacement of the existing 16-bit integer code with a version using 32-bit single-precision...
- Aad Schippers 🇪🇺 (aadschippers@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:48:39 JST Aad Schippers 🇪🇺
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  @nixCraft OS/VS1
  
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- Serpent7776 (serpent7776@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:48:58 JST Serpent7776
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  @nixCraft Commodore 64, so I guess BASIC.
  
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- schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:55:06 JST schrotthaufen
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  @nixCraft Windows 3.11 at school.
  
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- Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 06:56:38 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.
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  @nixCraft RSTS/E.
  
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- anyone_yun 🏳️‍⚧️ (anyoneyun@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 07:07:28 JST anyone_yun 🏳️‍⚧️
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  @nixCraft Windows XP!
  
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- Bot4Sale (bot4sale@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 07:31:19 JST Bot4Sale
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  @nixCraft BBC Micro I think. I recall someone having to "!boot" to kick things off
  
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- Petr Vorálek (nazir_cz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 07:32:43 JST Petr Vorálek
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  @nixCraft Amiga Workbench 3.0! The Amiga 1200 (and later the A4000) was my first computer after the fall of the commies here...
  
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- marcthenarc (marcthenarc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 08:17:44 JST marcthenarc
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  @nixCraft Whatever the TRS-80 had as an OS; TRSDOS according to Wikipedia.
  
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- Go Left (mclnv@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 09:38:26 JST Go Left
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  @nixCraft BSD Unix
  
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- Joseph Dickson (josephdickson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:08:23 JST Joseph Dickson
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  @nixCraft whatever the Commodore 64 used. 😉
  
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- mr_vintage (mr_vintage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:15:01 JST mr_vintage
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  @nixCraft Since it was a long time ago, I don’t remember the details. But it was a computer in computer science class at school. Corvette (in Russian Corvette). Worked on the operating system CP/M, MicroDOS. It was not a long acquaintance at the end of the 90s in the Russian outback.
  
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- hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:15:06 JST hdante
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  @nixCraft I believe MS-DOS 3.3
  
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- Kevin Hardiman (kevin_hardiman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:16:23 JST Kevin Hardiman
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  @nixCraft IIc.
  
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- in_sympathy (in_sympathy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 10:58:56 JST in_sympathy
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  @nixCraft Dos on a soviet computer called Poisk (Search if translated to English) - a red machine that stored data on cassettes and required memory cartridges to be inserted into the slots on the keyboard. We used those in the first three grades of school here in Ukraine. They looked really close to this:
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- Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 (catavz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 15:05:44 JST Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶
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  @nixCraft 👇 https://mastodon.social/@catavz/111272427832994636
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- Gilles Bonnet (gillesbonnet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 15:22:39 JST Gilles Bonnet
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  @nixCraft used a DEC PDP-8 in 71.. no os
  
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- Jose Rodrigues (jose_rodrigues@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 15:30:39 JST Jose Rodrigues
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  @nixCraft At mine, from what I recall, was some Unisys computer running a UNIX flavour. Good for Fortran programming...
  Since it was 1986, probably was a just rebranded Burroughs, not likely to be a new model.
  
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- Thom (tallthom@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 16:27:28 JST Thom
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  @nixCraft at school it was the TRS80 by Tandy/Radio shack... I think it booted DOS or whatever you had on a 5.25 in floppy.
  
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- herrgruen (herrgruen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 16:39:16 JST herrgruen
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  @nixCraft Commodore BASIC V2
  
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- aaron (aaronk6@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 17:15:53 JST aaron
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  @nixCraft Windows 3.1
  
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- Mike Seymour (mikeseymour@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:12:19 JST Mike Seymour
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  @nixCraft Our ZX Spectrum had a BASIC interpreter in lieu of an operating system. The first named OS I was aware of was CP/M on my school's IBM PC clones.
  
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- DJHVII (djhvii@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 22:27:35 JST DJHVII
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  @nixCraft Marconi Usercode
  
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- jojop1n🧊 (cm16657@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 23:22:19 JST jojop1n🧊
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  @nixCraft it was probably windows xp but i can remember vaguely using 98 so dunno
  
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- Jan Krupa (jankrupa@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 00:44:34 JST Jan Krupa
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  @nixCraft CP/M
  
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- kaffando (kaffando@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 19:31:36 JST kaffando
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  Multimate word processor. Does that count? 😀
  
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- adrian (asmtat@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 22:17:31 JST adrian
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  @nixCraft Sinclair BASIC (on Sinclair ZX Spectrum) then DOS (on 286)
  
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