Posted by
michael
on from the chaining-bootloaders-for-fun-and-profit dept.
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."
An attempt to name 37 operating systems
by
Elentar
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· 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
-- The wheel it turns, around and around,
with an ancient rumbling sound.
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!
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(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
The wheel it turns, around and around, with an ancient rumbling sound.
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!