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  1. April 8th, 2002, 08:52 PM #11
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    My overall favorite OS was OS/2 Warp. It was incredibly stable and had many features that were way ahead of it's time. It included Windows 3.1 and DOS compatibility, so it could run most of the PC applications that were available at the time.

    At this point, I stick with M$ OSs because of their wide spread adoption. If 80% of the world is using the same OS, then that's probably where the jobs are.

    However, I agree with others who say that it depends on your requirements...

    Price
    Performance
    Capacity
    Support
    Stability
    Flexibility
    Application availability
    Recoverability
    Scalability
    Security
    Monitoring
    Form factor
    Connectivity
    etc...

    Each OS has its strengths and weaknesses in these areas and many others. It's more appropriate to discuss OS strengths and weaknesses in specific areas than to ask flat out which is better.
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  2. April 8th, 2002, 08:54 PM #12
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    AmigaDOS rules!
    NeXt was pretty cool.
    I hate these types of threads.
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  3. April 8th, 2002, 09:18 PM #13
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    Dang corp, I was gonna say Amiga
    NeXT sucked, although I did have a lot of fun with it. Those NeXT Step machines were just so silly.
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  4. April 8th, 2002, 09:23 PM #14
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    Wait, wait, wait..... Vic OS!! Now that was an OS!

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  6. April 8th, 2002, 09:26 PM #15
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    Originally posted here by tyger_claw
    What's wrong with good ol' DOS?

    Ok, so it can't multitask or support 32bit, but who needs it!

    I say, go with classic DOS 2.0
    I'm a 3.3 man myself, but "to each his own"
    I came in to the world with nothing. I still have most of it.
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  7. April 8th, 2002, 09:30 PM #16
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    Actually, my favority DOS version was 6.1

    But hey, "to each his own"...

    wait, you said that
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  8. April 8th, 2002, 09:38 PM #17
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    Well I liked dos 6.2 all those windows and icons are for weaklings.
    If you talking current about witch is the best current os I would have to say windows XP. I feel that Linux comes up a little short as a viable desktop os. Mac OS X is a step in the right direction but I used it last semester for one of my courses and it gave me trouble to no end so I can't recommend it unless you need to do lots of video editing.
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  9. April 8th, 2002, 09:41 PM #18
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    Geoworks rocks!!!

    Damned Operating System - DOS

    I do video editing on my PC. Looks quite good. Anyway.
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    I heard no one mention about FreeBSD.Its my favourite.
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  12. February 1st, 2003, 07:10 PM #20
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    Yeah Dos was a classic or even windows 3.0 lol is quite stable in my opion
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