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1983-90: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS

1990-95: MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 Warp.

1995-97: Windows 95

1997-2001: Windows NT 4.0 (Came free with Visual Studio 6.0)

1998-2005: Various versions of Red Hat, for both desktop and server.

2001-2007: Windows XP

2005-2011: OS X (Latest Version)

That's almost identical to my timeline (currently a mix of OS X and Ubuntu.) I wonder what is next. In your timeline you've been on OS X for 6 years and the longest duration you list for any OS is 7. I wonder if I'll ever use Android, iOS, or Chrome enough to consider it primary? And if not, what?

My first computer was powered by Windows 3.1 and DR DOS 5. I made it a dual-boot with RedHat Linux several years later.

When I was working as a developer,there has has been a dual-boot between FreeBSD and Windows XP. But in most of the years I used to run Cygwin on a Windows XP. But Finally I switched to a pure Ubuntu workstation last year.

DiversiDOS!

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