You Can Tell A Programmer’s Age By Counting the Operating Systems He Has Used

I read this article, Old Operating Systems Don’t Die…,  and realized by the end, that the Psion Epoc OS is the only one on the list that I haven’t used. And I don’t mean that I tinkered with them for a few hours. Haiku I’ve tinkered with for a few hours using Sun VirtualBox. And, I actually tinkered with BeOS during it’s brief “prime”. No, I actually spent considerable time with each of the featured OS’ doing actual work, and play in the case of the C64 and Amiga. I have used each of them at some point in my career to make a living. And, in several cases, I owned computers that ran one of the OS’.

The list of “dead” OS’ I’ve used during my career is quite a bit longer than the list in the article. In addition to the articles list I’ve used Unix System 7 on the PDP-11, Dynix PTX on the Sequent Symmetry, Mac OS System 6, 7 on Apple hardware, Palm OS on various Palm PDAs, Novell Netware 3.11, Unix SVR4, PrimOS on a Prime mini,  Exec 8 on the Univac 1108, and of course the various “dead” versions of Windows.

Currently, I’m using Mac OS X, Windows XP & Vista, Linux, and Android. Someday, several of those will land on the list of the deceased OS’ as well.

Now, the list of “dead” programming languages I’ve used….