Alan Thompson's great addition to the reunion. The original, 'The One and Only',
4 program usage display , and a slot for "executive" from the Putney Computer center.
' Nice one Alan '.This is one hell of a piece of history !
For those who remember or wish to find out about the ICL 1900 series of
computers, I can strongly recommend the following link.
Brian Spoor's great site for the ICL 1900 Series.
Some considerable time has been spent with PC Systems so it will be no surprise to you to know that I have
also experienced some of the Best ( and Worst ) Operating Systems on the PC !
Here goes,
to list just a few:-
DOS:- ( yes good old dos ) from V2.0 up to todays Version 8 and above, IMHO 6.22 was about the best.
Windows:- ( from version 2.0 on ) yes version TWO ! and it worked, err.. sometimes.
Gem:- ( DR's lost product ) I still think it failed too early in its life. It had a good user interface and
mostly did what you expected it to do.
CPM:- an oldey but goody, in all its 8 and 16 bit forms, wonderful to write drivers for.
Mac:- The Gentle O/S it has been called, and I agree!
Linux:- How can we leave linux till last, well because I have only just restarted my interest. I
was stuck at 6.1 for a long while as the application worked fine on the machine it was intended
for but slowly stopped working as the releases moved on. I am now about to Launch into SuSe 9.1
so wish me luck!
Wierdest:-
Wierdest O/S of all has to be QDOS for the QL computer, it worked and worked well, but it was
very hard going to get it to do anything. Although the Amiga was not too helpful with its
GURU Meditation crashes, and the Atari ST just popping a number of pictures of Bombs on the
screen, yes you had to count them as well !
Smallest:-
The nascom almost wins with the likes of Tbug and Nassys, but the 6301 tiny basic wins for me
One kilo byte of rom and it ran basic, drove an RS232 interface, and talked almost plain english!
All from a mininuative PCB and a 5 volt battery.
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Here goes, to list just a few:-
DOS:- ( yes good old dos ) from V2.0 up to todays Version 8 and above, IMHO 6.22 was about the best.
Windows:- ( from version 2.0 on ) yes version TWO ! and it worked, err.. sometimes.
Gem:- ( DR's lost product ) I still think it failed too early in its life. It had a good user interface and mostly did what you expected it to do.
CPM:- an oldey but goody, in all its 8 and 16 bit forms, wonderful to write drivers for.
Mac:- The Gentle O/S it has been called, and I agree!
Linux:- How can we leave linux till last, well because I have only just restarted my interest. I was stuck at 6.1 for a long while as the application worked fine on the machine it was intended for but slowly stopped working as the releases moved on. I am now about to Launch into SuSe 9.1 so wish me luck!
Wierdest:-
Wierdest O/S of all has to be QDOS for the QL computer, it worked and worked well, but it was very hard going to get it to do anything. Although the Amiga was not too helpful with its GURU Meditation crashes, and the Atari ST just popping a number of pictures of Bombs on the screen, yes you had to count them as well !
Smallest:-
The nascom almost wins with the likes of Tbug and Nassys, but the 6301 tiny basic wins for me
One kilo byte of rom and it ran basic, drove an RS232 interface, and talked almost plain english! All from a mininuative PCB and a 5 volt battery.