Whats the most obscure OS you have used?

[Fruitloop]

Did none of you help to make Alan Sugar a millionaire with his Amstrad running, what was it CPM?

I had the loan of a Research Machines Nimbus (wrong see edit) once which had a pattern making program called Mosaic on an 8 inch disc. It also had a database program called Quest. I have no idea what the OS was though. One day the machine went 'bang' and a mixture of smoke and dust went into the air.

EDITED TO ADD THE ABOVE IS BOLLOCKS it wasn't the RM Nimbus at all, I have just checked. The RM Nimbus was a PC Clone. No this beastie was a large black metal box and was not a PC type of thing at all BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS! <Hits head on wall>

My school had the amstrads to which you refer. Can't remember much about the OS though...

 

[Detroit City]

anyone remember the Radio Shack TRS-80....also known as the "Trash 80"??

 

[laptop]

My school had the amstrads to which you refer. Can't remember much about the OS though...

It was CP/M - though slightly bastardised IIRC

And MS-DOS 1.0 was a highly inferior clone of CP/M, losing its certain sparse elegance (of course, as we would say now)

Another obscure OS I've used: MP/M - multi-user CP/M

MP/M too, was quite neat in its way.

 

[spudulike]

cadol on a cado c.a.t. - beat that?

 

[Detroit City]

Another obscure OS I've used: MP/M - multi-user CP/M

MP/M too, was quite neat in its way.

did you have to use punch cards?

 

[laptop]

did you have to use punch cards?

Good Lord no. It was a modern OS - the "/M" stands for "for Microprocessors" and it loaded off one 180k 8-inch floppy disk.


I've only used punch cards under OS/360 - which was hardly obscure at the time, since half the world ran on it.


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[RedRumsBum]

Pick.

Q pointer heaven.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The RM Nimbus was a PC Clone. No this beastie was a large black metal box and was not a PC type of thing at all BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS! <Hits head on wall>

The large black box would have been an RM 380Z:

The first RM Nimbus wasn't a PC clone as such, it ran it's own modified version of DOS IIRC - and my dad had the first one ever production model at our house Later versions of the Nimbus became straight PCs though.

There was a pretty constant stream of RM kit though our house in the 80s/90s due to the work my dad was doing with them, via Birmingham LEA.

 

[Structaural]

The large black box would have been an RM 380Z:

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We used to have those at my school (though I think they were 480Zs), networked up - they ran CP/M if I remember rightly - we used to program in Pascal, Logo and some version of Basic. They were later replaced with RM PCs when I left in '87.

 

[MullahNasrudin]

NeXTSTEP, BeOS, C/PM Plus...