[James_F]

Link to story...

So how many operating systems do you have?

Here is the list of this guys OSes... My personal favorite is seeing that he is running Dosshell.

Main Menu:
Dos 6.22 w/Dosshell
Dos 7.0
DR-Dos
FreeDos
OS/2 warp IV
SkyOS

Windows Menu:
Windows 1.01
Windows 2.03
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98 First Edition
Windows 98 SE (2 installations - Main, Lite)
Windows ME
Windows XP Pro
Windows 2000 Pro

Unix Menu:
AtheOS
Syllable OS
Aos (Bluebottle)/Oberon 2.3.6
BeOS 5 Personal Edition
BeOS 5 w/ Mac skin
BeOS 5.03 Developer Edition
QNX 6.1
QNX 6.2
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD
Minix

Linux Menu:
Storm 2000
Immunix
Conectiva
Libranet
Vector
JBLinux
Slackware
Trustix
Red Hat 7.2
Mandrake 8.2
Debian

Dos Window Managers Menu:
Tandy Deskmate
Desktop 2
Dos94
Dosstart
Egress
Gaze
Glance
IconDOs
Iconshell
QBfos99
Iconshell 2.1
xgui 3
xgui 4
MAcShell
MilleniumOS
XTos

 

[gcutler]

I doubt that guy is going for produtivity, as many of those OSes have been obsolete for years...

Until recently, I had on one machine (but with a 20GB & 80GB drive)

Win2K Pro
Win2K Adv Svr
Redhat Linux 7.3
Mandrake Linux 8.2

I also had Caldera Linux as well for a day or so but figured that was overkill. I blew away the whole set of drives and now just have Win2K Adv Svr with Domino/Notes 6.00 on it.

In the Past I had on one machine (A 486/50 I believe with 8MB ram???)

Dos 6
OS/2 Warp
NT 4 (or was it 3.51?) SVR
NT 4 (or was it 3.51?) Wkstn
Netware 3.12
Slackware Linux

 

[Steve Mehs]

Holy crap. Most I ever had was 2 OSes on one machine and that's how it came from the factory. My IBM orginally came with WIN3.1 and OS/2 Warp (oh yeah and DOS 9). A year later I borrowed the WIN95 and nixed 3.1 and OS/2. Best move I ever made

 

[James_F]

Not to mention most of the aren't Y2K compliant...

 

[gcutler]

Originally posted by Steve Mehs
Holy crap. Most I ever had was 2 OSes on one machine and that's how it came from the factory. My IBM orginally came with WIN3.1 and OS/2 Warp (oh yeah and DOS 9). A year later I borrowed the WIN95 and nixed 3.1 and OS/2. Best move I ever made

Technically Win 1, 2, and 3.x (as well as Windows for Workgroup) were not Operating Systems (more Operating Environments) as they were add-ons, and were not bootable OSes like DOS or Win9x or Warp were. Was that a real version of DOS or just the DOS window under Warp.

 

[Ryan]

I attended Linux Expo last winter in NYC. They hold a 'family-fued' style trivia game one evening.

The final question for the panels was to come up with a list of 13 or 15 (I forget) linus distros not including the big names in industry.

So you could probaby get 20 - 30 linux distros on one box before you even started looking at Windows, DOS, etc.