We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And
Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!


#


This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not
something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________


#


This isn't an entirely easy one for me to answer. In a sense, I
started with boot-loaders, but despite the fact that I included them
in the list above, they aren't /really/ an OS as we think of them
today. Technically, I guess the first proper operating system I used
was ProDOS for the Apple ][ (e.g., "v0.1 - Something 8-bit"), although
I really had no idea that it even WAS an operating system. It was
mostly just 'that disk I put in first whenever I needed to copy a
disk'. So I don't really count that either.

No, my first 'real' operating system --the one I used regularly, and
learned what the commands were and understood what I was doing-- was
some version of DOS when I moved to PC. (I think it was v4.0, but
whether it was MS or PC or what I can't remember).

So, final answer? Either "v0.1 - Something 8-bit" or "v1.0 - Some
variety of DOS for PCs", depending on how vigorously I defend the 'use
and learn' qualification of the original question.

#


What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?



--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:07:59 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

v0.1 - something 8-bit for me.

It was BASIC on the C64. Is that a programming language though rather
than an OS? Well, that is what I used to control that machine anyway.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 7/27/2026 6:07 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

#

This isn't an entirely easy one for me to answer. In a sense, I
started with boot-loaders, but despite the fact that I included them
in the list above, they aren't /really/ an OS as we think of them
today. Technically, I guess the first proper operating system I used
was ProDOS for the Apple ][ (e.g., "v0.1 - Something 8-bit"), although
I really had no idea that it even WAS an operating system. It was
mostly just 'that disk I put in first whenever I needed to copy a
disk'. So I don't really count that either.

No, my first 'real' operating system --the one I used regularly, and
learned what the commands were and understood what I was doing-- was
some version of DOS when I moved to PC. (I think it was v4.0, but
whether it was MS or PC or what I can't remember).

So, final answer? Either "v0.1 - Something 8-bit" or "v1.0 - Some
variety of DOS for PCs", depending on how vigorously I defend the 'use
and learn' qualification of the original question.

#

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

I don't know. It was the community college mainframe. I was on it in 1981.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in news:i7tf6l5oqcslrkfdsaaq1qd7hvq0o093i9@4ax.com:

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

CP/M

--
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos -- the only sysadmins that matter

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And >Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not >something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

<snip>

v(fill in version info) - Something else ____

TRS-Dos for the TRS-80 Model 1
Then an early MS-Dos for same
Then MS-Dos, forget version number on Dad's 386

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 7/27/2026 6:07 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

#

This isn't an entirely easy one for me to answer. In a sense, I
started with boot-loaders, but despite the fact that I included them
in the list above, they aren't /really/ an OS as we think of them
today. Technically, I guess the first proper operating system I used
was ProDOS for the Apple ][ (e.g., "v0.1 - Something 8-bit"), although
I really had no idea that it even WAS an operating system. It was
mostly just 'that disk I put in first whenever I needed to copy a
disk'. So I don't really count that either.

No, my first 'real' operating system --the one I used regularly, and
learned what the commands were and understood what I was doing-- was
some version of DOS when I moved to PC. (I think it was v4.0, but
whether it was MS or PC or what I can't remember).

So, final answer? Either "v0.1 - Something 8-bit" or "v1.0 - Some
variety of DOS for PCs", depending on how vigorously I defend the 'use
and learn' qualification of the original question.

#

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

v13.0 CP/M (wow, you're old)

I'm 57.

I started at around 8 on the computer my mom's partner soldered together
from a kit playing such things as colossal cave adventure, Hamurabi,
wumpus, and star trek.

--
-Justisaur

?-?
(\_/)\
`-'\ `--.___,
?ª'\( ,_.-'
\\
^'

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

Only the regular fags reply to such diarrhea.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

V0.1 with my Texas Instrument 99/4A! https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my details! ;)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

#

This isn't an entirely easy one for me to answer. In a sense, I
started with boot-loaders, but despite the fact that I included them
in the list above, they aren't /really/ an OS as we think of them
today. Technically, I guess the first proper operating system I used
was ProDOS for the Apple ][ (e.g., "v0.1 - Something 8-bit"), although
I really had no idea that it even WAS an operating system. It was
mostly just 'that disk I put in first whenever I needed to copy a
disk'. So I don't really count that either.

No, my first 'real' operating system --the one I used regularly, and
learned what the commands were and understood what I was doing-- was
some version of DOS when I moved to PC. (I think it was v4.0, but
whether it was MS or PC or what I can't remember).

So, final answer? Either "v0.1 - Something 8-bit" or "v1.0 - Some
variety of DOS for PCs", depending on how vigorously I defend the 'use
and learn' qualification of the original question.

#

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

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On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:47:45 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

TRS-Dos for the TRS-80 Model 1
Then an early MS-Dos for same
Then MS-Dos, forget version number on Dad's 386

Xocyll

I think the earliest MS-DOS version I ever used was 3.3 -- That number
is vaguely familiar to me.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:07:59 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And >Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not >something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

#

This isn't an entirely easy one for me to answer. In a sense, I
started with boot-loaders, but despite the fact that I included them
in the list above, they aren't /really/ an OS as we think of them
today. Technically, I guess the first proper operating system I used
was ProDOS for the Apple ][ (e.g., "v0.1 - Something 8-bit"), although
I really had no idea that it even WAS an operating system. It was
mostly just 'that disk I put in first whenever I needed to copy a
disk'. So I don't really count that either.

No, my first 'real' operating system --the one I used regularly, and
learned what the commands were and understood what I was doing-- was
some version of DOS when I moved to PC. (I think it was v4.0, but
whether it was MS or PC or what I can't remember).

So, final answer? Either "v0.1 - Something 8-bit" or "v1.0 - Some
variety of DOS for PCs", depending on how vigorously I defend the 'use
and learn' qualification of the original question.

#

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

LOAD"$",8
LIST

That is DIR in what OS? 0.1 - That was my first.

--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:47:45 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

TRS-Dos for the TRS-80 Model 1
Then an early MS-Dos for same
Then MS-Dos, forget version number on Dad's 386

Xocyll

I think the earliest MS-DOS version I ever used was 3.3 -- That number
is vaguely familiar to me.

I think the earliest I used on PC might have been 3.0, but it's been so
long I cannot remember.

I think I still have a bootleg copy of Windows 1.0 around somewhere.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:07:59 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And >Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

Well, you all confirmed it: we're all officially old.

Myself, I didn't really intend to include any embedded systems;
nothing built into the BIOS. I was really more interested in
disk-based operating systems rather than the BASIC or simple commands
you could boot into from a systems ROMs. But I couldn't really argue
too strenuously against those being legitimate operating systems
either.

Maybe I should have limited the poll to IBM/PC-based operating
systems... or ones that needed a disk. Well, too late now (and
besides, then I wouldn't have been able to include Macs and Solaris!)

Kudos for Dimensional Traveller for starting with a mainframe-based
OS, though. That's a cool way to start your career in computing!

When writing up the list of choices, I was disturbed by how many of my selections I actually had experience with. Obviously the Windows and
DOS and Linuxes (and Macs too) but over the years I also bounced
against a lot of the others. (Not OS/360, though. I mostly only
experienced Big Iron through intermediaries).

Still, I was hoping for at least ONE person here to say, "Oh yeah, the
first time I used a computer it was running Windows ME" or something
(although even that already is over a quarter-of-a-century old), just
so we wouldn't all appear so... wrinkly! ;-)



--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 7/30/2026 10:30 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:07:59 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

Still, I was hoping for at least ONE person here to say, "Oh yeah, the
first time I used a computer it was running Windows ME" or something (although even that already is over a quarter-of-a-century old), just
so we wouldn't all appear so... wrinkly! ;-)

Well we have yet to hear from candycanearter07 our resident whipersnapper.

--
-Justisaur

?-?
(\_/)\
`-'\ `--.___,
?ª'\( ,_.-'
\\
^'

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:26:08 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Well we have yet to hear from candycanearter07 our resident whipersnapper.

Heh. :)

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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On 28/07/2026 02:07, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

We've done one of these silly (not to mention Completely Random And Pointless) polls this month already, but you know what? Let's buck the
system and do another one. Two CRAP polls in a single month? We're
shaking the pillars of heaven with our craziness! Let's do it!!!1!

#

This is a simple one:

What was the first computer operating system you used / learned? Not something you may have encountered, but something that was part of
your life for a while.

Here's a non-exclusive list of the most likely suspects to get you
started:

v0.1 - Something 8-bit
v1.0 - Some variety of DOS for PCs (QDOS, MS-/PC-/DR-DOS, etc.)
v1.5 - early Windows (v1.0-3.1, and yeah, I know, 'not an OS')
v2.0 - Windows95 / 98 / ME
v3.0 - early Windows NT (up to 2K)
v3.1 - Windows XP / Vista / 8
v4.0 - Classic MacOS (up to v9.x)
v4.5 - MacOS X and later
v5.0 - UNIX (official and variants like Xenix)
v6.0 - SunOS / Solaris (awesome!)
v7.0 - early Linux (when you needed to know what you're doing)
v7.5 - Linux after Ubuntu (when anybody could use it)
v8.0 - BSD
v9.0 - VMS
v10.0 - Novell Netware (you poor soul)
v11.0 - a mobile OS (iOS, Android, Palm, NewtonOS, WinCE)
v11.5 - ChromeOS
v12.0 - OS/2
v13.0 - CPM (wow, you're old)
v14.0 - OS/360 (wow, you're REALLY old)
v(OS Not Found) - boot-loaders for life!
v(No version information available) - I wrote my own OS!
v(fill in version info) - Something else ______________________

[snipped]

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

First one I started with was on IBM mainframes (4341 and 4381). The
operating systems were VM/SP HPO (version of VM/370) and DOS/VSE. VM was
the main OS, DOS/VSE run under VM and we did 95% of the batch processing
on the DOS/VSE systems.

I started working in 1981 and in June of that year, one of the 4341
machines had a memory upgrade. We went from 2Mb to 4Mb and, at the time,
the cost of the additional 2Mb was more than the average house.

Cheers

Geoff


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:55:55 +0100, Geoff May <GeoffMay817@gmail.com>
said this thing:

On 28/07/2026 02:07, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

First one I started with was on IBM mainframes (4341 and 4381). The >operating systems were VM/SP HPO (version of VM/370) and DOS/VSE. VM was
the main OS, DOS/VSE run under VM and we did 95% of the batch processing
on the DOS/VSE systems.

I started working in 1981 and in June of that year, one of the 4341
machines had a memory upgrade. We went from 2Mb to 4Mb and, at the time,
the cost of the additional 2Mb was more than the average house.

Impressive. I'm taking away the kudos I gave to Dimensional Traveller
and giving them to you instead ;-)



--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 8/1/2026 8:52 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:55:55 +0100, Geoff May <GeoffMay817@gmail.com>
said this thing:

On 28/07/2026 02:07, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

What was the first operating system you learned and used regularly?

First one I started with was on IBM mainframes (4341 and 4381). The
operating systems were VM/SP HPO (version of VM/370) and DOS/VSE. VM was
the main OS, DOS/VSE run under VM and we did 95% of the batch processing
on the DOS/VSE systems.

I started working in 1981 and in June of that year, one of the 4341
machines had a memory upgrade. We went from 2Mb to 4Mb and, at the time,
the cost of the additional 2Mb was more than the average house.

Impressive. I'm taking away the kudos I gave to Dimensional Traveller
and giving them to you instead ;-)

He'll have to supply his own wizard robe though.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)