OS I'd Most Like To See Make a Comeback
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VMS (Score:5, Funny)
Orthogonality FTW
Options, blah blah blah (Score:5, Funny)
Where is the "Linux" option??
*ducks*
Re:Options, blah blah blah (Score:5, Funny)
DOS is on there.
*runs away, giggling*
hp/ux (Score:5, Funny)
I work as a cod fisherman on a boat and I just polled all of the boat guys and we all agree that hp/ux is basically the best os ever. back in the 1980s I worked as an I.T. guy for a company that sold 6-ft inflatable bulls and we had a mainframe that ran hp/ux. but we used IBM machines running dr-dos on our desks, so we had to tell net into the hp/ux machine. i don't remember the name of the tell net program but it cost $40 and the company paid for it by not buying coffee mugs to give away at the annual christmas/yom kippur party.
anyway there was a pot smoker down the hall who didn't like hp/ux and liked to call it ph/ux instead (to make it a cuss). nobody liked him though because he was always late and wore teenage mutant ninja turtle shirts. also, hp/ux had a tool and I forget what it was called but it let you monitor the system, which was good. because you need to monitor the system very often. also you could run "ps" to view processes.
so this is why I think most people would agree that hp/ux is the best
Somewhere in an alternate universe... (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere in an alternate universe, the desktop market dominating VisiCorp has just unleashed the latest version of their world class operating system: Visi On 2011.
Over at their competition, Apple CEO Steve Wozniak - to much fanfare as always - has unveiled the newest update to their ProDOS X operating system for their Apple 7e series personal mobile computing devices.
Both of these feature the latest web browser, PATHWORKS Mosaic, from the internet search engine leader Digital Equipment Corporation.
Being a weird twisted universe, of course they also have Linux - but it is written in Pascal.
Kids these days (Score:5, Funny)
CP/M. You kids and your multitasking and Gooeys and Colonels... MEH
Why, in my day, computers communicated with decks of punch-cards that were send by courier wrapped in brown paper. That's why they're called "packets". We piled them on top of the reader until we had time to get to them, and that was a company policy. That's why it's called "protocol stacks". And while we were waiting for communications to be established, we used the couriers to run homemade methamphetamines to each other. That's why it's called "Ethernet".
Uphill. Both ways. In the snow. Beating off bears with our paper-tape reels. And the bears were GRATEFUL.
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Emacs
Re:They left out the one I wanted (Score:4, Funny)
Me: "?"
M.I.T. dude: "Honeywell".
Missing option: Minix! (Score:5, Funny)
Signed,
Linus T.
University of Helsinki, Finland
Re:OS/2 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Old Code (Score:5, Funny)
It's a shame Apple bought NeXT-Step and with it Steve Jobs
I agree, Steve Jobs has been a nightmare for Apple. They just can't seem to make any products that people want to buy. "iMac", "iPod", "iPhone", "iPad"...it's a pathetic, endless series of failed products. It sucks too that he's turned Apple into the most valuable technology company in the world. An unmitigated disaster. BeOS could have made all the difference.
Windows ME hands down (Score:5, Funny)
It has to be Windows ME hands down.
I miss all the overtime pay.
Re:VMS (Score:5, Funny)
VMS: designed by software engineers for scientists.
Unix: designed by students for nobody in mind.
Re:hp/ux (Score:5, Funny)
So what you're basically telling us is:
"Look at your server, now look at mine; look back to yours, then back to mine. Sadly, your server isn't mine, but your server could be like mine if you were running hp/ux. I'm on a boat."
GNU/HURD (Score:4, Funny)
When it was released, GNU/HURD was far and away the fastest and most stable OS on DEC Alpha EV8 and PowerPC 620 based machines, and was the only thing that could run dBASE VIII, PageMaker 8.0, or Duke Nukem Forever at acceptable speeds.