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37 Operating Systems, 1 PC

cpaluc writes "Bored? Surplus spare time and PC hardware? Read on. OSNews has links to a couple of articles (1,2) about a guy who installed 37 operating systems on one PC. There's something to do with your spare time and hardware."

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  1. Re:I am first by JDRipper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad it don't count for squat when you're an AC.

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  2. Re:I am first by cdf12345 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    shit you think I'd waste karma on this shit?

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  3. An attempt to name 37 operating systems by Elentar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    (without reading the article). These are all ones that I've used at some point, too. And they should all run on a PC.

    1) MS-DOS 3.3
    2) MS-DOS 5
    3) MS-DOS 6.2
    4) Windows 95
    5) Windows 98
    6) Windows 98SE
    7) Windows ME
    8) Windows XP
    9) Windows NT 3.51
    10) Windows NT 4.00
    11) Windows 2000
    12) SCO Xenix
    13) Linux of all sorts
    14) FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc.
    15) Solaris
    16) GNU/Hurd
    17) Plan 9
    18) FreeDOS (Version ?)
    19) DR-DOS (Version ?)
    20) Novell Netware (Version ?)

    That's about all I can pull from the top of my head. If you consider seperate versions BSD, Linux, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Netware as different OSes or installations of Windows 286/386/3.1/3.11 as actual OSes, you'd easily get past 37.

    -Elentar

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  4. KVM Switches. by janda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They also make two-port switches, if you don't need a four-port one. Also eight-port and sixteen-port switches, if you really need them. If you need more then that, look in your yellow pages under "computer cables" or something similar.

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  5. Re:Why??? by ByTor-2112 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Friend of mine has an old Dell inspiron i120 (or sometihng like that).. 120mhz pentium, 32mb ram, 2gb hd, no cdrom. Linux 2.4-based distros won't even boot. FreeBSD 4.6 does a network install flawlessly. Give it a shot!

  6. Re:37? by FunkyELF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice URL there buddy, but Norton said its a virus JS.Winbomb.d