Poll: What's your Operating System?

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:15AM

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:29AM

If you feel strongly about adding, including or excluding an OS please reply - Thank you for your time.

DennisH · August 1, 2007 3:31AM

Mac!!!!

OS X 10.3.9

MadMarty · August 1, 2007 3:31AM

I better upgrade, I'm still running CPM!!!

Russ · August 1, 2007 3:32AM

Win 3.1 / DOS 6.0. I'm thinking about upgrading, though.

Russ, NCNE

ziggy29 · August 1, 2007 3:37AM

One of my computers runs MyDOS 4.53. It's an Atari 800.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:38AM

<< Win 3.1 / DOS 6.0. I'm thinking about upgrading, though.

Russ, NCNE >>

Mac I expected...

But Wow! was not thinking I'd hear from a 3.1 user (never mind a CPM)!
If you don't mind my asking, have you stuck with 3.1 because you've had no compelling reason to upgrade?
Just don't want the hassle of learning how to do the same things all over?
Or just not a big computer user?

Feel free to tell me to bug off

PS: CPM? you must be pulling my leg right?

SpaceMonkey · August 1, 2007 3:38AM

hey! why no mac in your poll!!!

Steve27 · August 1, 2007 3:39AM

Home: Vista (may switch back to XP due to lack of drivers)
Work: XP

MadMarty · August 1, 2007 3:41AM

Running on an Apple ][, I just added a 16K memory card!!

STONE · August 1, 2007 3:42AM

hasta la "Vista" Baby

TwoKopeiki · August 1, 2007 3:44AM

I'm working on an abacus with an LCD hook-up...

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:45AM

<< hey! why no mac in your poll!!!

>>

Unfortunately - When small companies pick a platform to write for (with everything else being equal) they go for Microsoft OSs.

Writing a Mac or Lynx variant is almost like writing two totally different applications, expenses are doubled but return is only +10%

Russ · August 1, 2007 3:45AM

<< But Wow! was not thinking I'd hear from a 3.1 user (never mind a CPM)!
If you don't mind my asking, have you stuck with 3.1 because you've had no compelling reason to upgrade?
Just don't want the hassle of learning how to do the same things all over?
Or just not a big computer user? >>

Computers are intimidating, and the thought of changing what I'm used to scares me.

Russ, NCNE

ziggy29 · August 1, 2007 3:45AM

<< Running on an Apple ][, I just added a 16K memory card!! >>

Is it really an Apple ][, or is it a ][+ or a ][e? I used to love playing Wizardry on the ][e we used to have.

MadMarty · August 1, 2007 3:47AM

<< 

<< Running on an Apple ][, I just added a 16K memory card!! >>

Is it really an Apple ][, or is it a ][+ or a ][e? I used to love playing Wizardry on the ][e we used to have. >>

A plain Apple ][! My first computer job was assembling them from the baggie of parts Apple sent!

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:47AM

<< 

<< But Wow! was not thinking I'd hear from a 3.1 user (never mind a CPM)!
If you don't mind my asking, have you stuck with 3.1 because you've had no compelling reason to upgrade?
Just don't want the hassle of learning how to do the same things all over?
Or just not a big computer user? >>

Computers are intimidating, and the thought of changing what I'm used to scares me.

Russ, NCNE >>

Ok Russ I'm putting you down as "Vista Pro"

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:47AM

You too Marty

etexmike · August 1, 2007 3:48AM

Windows XP at home and work.

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etexmike

eyoung429 · August 1, 2007 3:48AM

VAX/VMS

ziggy29 · August 1, 2007 3:49AM

<< A plain Apple ][! My first computer job was assembling them from the baggie of parts Apple sent! >>

I recall buying a CP/M card from Applied Engineering (remember them?) for the ][e so I could run Turbo Pascal at home and I could do all my college programming assignments at home.

Russ · August 1, 2007 3:51AM

<< Ok Russ I'm putting you down as "Vista Pro" >>

Vista blows chunks.

Russ, NCNE

Gemineye · August 1, 2007 3:51AM

Commodore 64...!!......

Scioto · August 1, 2007 3:53AM

z/OS V1.8

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:53AM

<< VAX/VMS >>

Ya baby DEC products! - Er - on second thought... Sorry no.

Djord · August 1, 2007 3:54AM

XP- home and work
Tried Vista but removed it, to many driver issues!

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:55AM

<< Commodore 64...!!......

>>

First programs I wrote were for the 64

123cents · August 1, 2007 3:57AM

8088.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 3:58AM

<< 

<< Ok Russ I'm putting you down as "Vista Pro" >>

Vista blows chunks.

Russ, NCNE >>

<< XP- home and work
Tried Vista but removed it, to many driver issues! >>

Yes we've had lots of fun Beta testing Vista - But for this app the issues were mostly IE7 based.

mozeppa · August 1, 2007 4:00AM

dos 5.0

whats windows?

MadMarty · August 1, 2007 4:01AM

<< 

<< VAX/VMS >>

Ya baby DEC products! - Er - on second thought... Sorry no. >>

I still use my PDP-15 to heat the basement in the winter!

ziggy29 · August 1, 2007 4:02AM

<< Yes we've had lots of fun Beta testing Vista - But for this app the issues were mostly IE7 based. >>

IE7 is junk. My employer forbids IE7 on its systems. When you log into their network -- at the office or through VPN -- there's code that loads in the login script that prevents IE7 from installing, and removes it if present. That's how highly industry thinks of IE7...

tightbudget · August 1, 2007 4:03AM

How I wish I had Windows Vista...or a Mac.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:07AM

<< 

<< Yes we've had lots of fun Beta testing Vista - But for this app the issues were mostly IE7 based. >>

IE7 is junk. My employer forbids IE7 on its systems. When you log into their network -- at the office or through VPN -- there's code that loads in the login script that prevents IE7 from installing, and removes it if present. That's how highly industry thinks of IE7... >>

I had no choice - like it or not it's the future, when MS pulls the plug on XP that's it... Vista will eventually rule, just not today.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:08AM

Not one brave windows 98 or Me user???

I likey.

Shamika · August 1, 2007 4:11AM

Mac 8.6 but I'm about to buy an Intel Mac once MS Office 2008 for the Mac is released (if that ever happens).

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:13AM

This is very telling - thank you all.

Windows: 98, ME and NT4 combined have less market share then Mac.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:14AM

<< Mac 8.6 but I'm about to buy an Intel Mac once MS Office 2008 for the Mac is released (if that ever happens). >>

Hummmm... Don't the Intel Mac's have a Windows emulator?

robec · August 1, 2007 4:16AM

OS X 10.4.10

BobGreene · August 1, 2007 4:16AM

<< Commodore 64...!!......

>>

I used to have a Commodore 64 but I've since upgraded to the 128. This thing is fast!

Actually, I use WinXP. And what's wrong with IE7? I like it.

p8nt · August 1, 2007 4:17AM

OS X 10.4.10

ziggy29 · August 1, 2007 4:17AM

<< And what's wrong with IE7? I like it. >>

Nothing at all, if you don't have any apps that don't play nice with it.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:21AM

<< 

<< Commodore 64...!!......

>>

I used to have a Commodore 64 but I've since upgraded to the 128. This thing is fast!

Actually, I use WinXP. And what's wrong with IE7? I like it. >>

From a users point of view I don't see a problem with IE7 either, but a few changes were made to how certain events functioned. All minor stuff (for this application) with work arounds available. Just that things stopped working till we figured out what they were.

Russ · August 1, 2007 4:26AM

<< Actually, I use WinXP. And what's wrong with IE7? I like it. >>

I'll give you one example out of many. One of my clients is an accounting firm, and one of the applications they use works in tandem with the web browser. A few of their workstation users upgraded to IE 7 and that particular ap suddenly ceased to work. In fact, opening it would crash the system.

Russ, NCNE

Russ · August 1, 2007 4:27AM

<< Not one brave windows 98 or Me user??? >>

I still have 98SE on one of my systems.

Russ, NCNE

TwoSides2aCoin · August 1, 2007 4:31AM

I have this keyboard hooked to a black box. Then there is this Television thing that has wires going to a black box. There is a fishy thing with a wire that goes to the black box, too. Some speakers go to it, also. I just know how to type and hit enter. My daughter turns the computer on for me and I go to work with the keyboard. It's a typewriter that has the correction tape built into it. I like the gadgetry, but my daughter just sings some silly song about the farmer in the dell™

Do you know how to hook up a milking cow ?

Shamika · August 1, 2007 4:42AM

<< << Mac 8.6 but I'm about to buy an Intel Mac once MS Office 2008 for the Mac is released (if that ever happens). >>

Hummmm... Don't the Intel Mac's have a Windows emulator? >>

Yes they do. But if I wanted to run Windows, I'd just go ahead and spend $600 on a Dell. Besides, my circa 1999 Mac running circa 1993 MS Word, Excel, and Photoshop still runs great and I prefer it over my PC running Window 2000XP at work.

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:48AM

<< ....

Do you know how to hook up a milking cow ? >>

Not sure, have you tried just plugging it in and seeing what happens?

JoesMaName · August 1, 2007 4:51AM

<< ... if I wanted to run Windows, I'd just go ahead and spend $600 on a Dell... >>

True

Classof67 · August 1, 2007 4:51AM

Using Vista Ultimate on my main computer, still lots of problems, and a much bigger tendency to crash and reboot on it's on than XP ever had. I'm still using XP on my laptops where my collecting software is located. (Coinmanage)

Tim

TwoSides2aCoin · August 1, 2007 4:52AM

<< 

<< ....

Do you know how to hook up a milking cow ? >>

Not sure, have you tried just plugging it in and seeing what happens?

>>

That's what I like about you techie guys. Always experimentin' LOL

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