What other OS's were made before Windows 95?

[TamaNeko]

Have there been any other operating systems that were made with a GUI, during the time before Windows 95? Aside from earlier Windows systems, Linux and OS/2 Warp, were there any others? I once saw an ad in an old DOS magazine for some sort of OS that looked like Windows 3.1, but was simpler, and cheaper...though I've forgotten what it was called...

[Martee]

MacOS? AmigaOS?

[iNeb]

Windows 3.11

My old school i left a few weeks ago used it

[larrwhit]

there was a dos program named stup-n-dos that was sort of graphical and made handling files a lot easier. it was a share ware progie and i got in big trouble when i installed it on all the computers (386"s) in my colleges computer lab

[OuTpaTienT]

Desqview from Quarterdeck (QEMM) was a GUI multitasking eviorment. But just like Windows 1, 2/286, 386, 3.0, 3.1, WFW3.11, it ran on top of DOS so I don't know if it qualifies as an OS.

[Redwolf]

Many diffrent Unix-based OSes, DRDOS, PCDOS.

[vass0922]

solaris may have been using CDE GUI by then.
Not sure when X server started for *nix

[PresterJohn]

ahhh, yes...desqview! how i fondly remember those days

[J-Excel]

I used GEM on my frirst PC.

[pbharris]

Linux of course, plus freeBSD, HP-UX, OS/2

[lynchmob]

Here's a brief history of windows.There are links to other GUI-related sites and a stupid ad near the end
lynch

[XT]

CP/M

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

But just like Windows 1, 2/286, 386, 3.0, 3.1, WFW3.11, it ran on top of DOS so I don't know if it qualifies as an OS.

You forgot Win95,98 and ME on that list

can't think of any others but dosshell (but that's not very GUI, more like ASCII)

[uethello]

Dosshell, anyone. Does that count?

[Love2Learn]

geeezzz you guys are ooooooollllllllldddddddddddd my first OS was 3.11 wow you guys are oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllldddddddddddddddddddddddd dddddddd
of course that is IMO

-L2L

[uethello]

I remember anticipating DOS 5.0. I also remember wondering where my big black screen was when win95 came out.

How about LDOS for the TRS-80?

[5atanic]

Hmm DOS does kinda count as an OS since it does stand for Disk Operating System.. but I don't know much OS's before Win95 since that was my first OS I used

[RustyGT]

You disqualified OS/2 from the quiz.

But a point or two on OS/2.
There were a number of versions of OS2.

I vaguely recall an early one was called Operating System 2 for Windows NT.
Had MS copyright and regd trademarks all over it.

Then the OS/Warp, which was ahead of W95.
In '94 offered, voice recognition, fancy desktop, etc.

I know for a fact that OS2/Warp4 is still being run.
On a large percentage of the Auto Teller Machines* in Aust.

Why?

1. Stability.
2. Proprietary.*

IBM still owns a lot of that technology*

OS2 was a coulda been.

Unfortunately, too much of the source code had been surrended to MS. For IBM to promote it.

R.

[flashingcurser]

I can remember IBM-dos2.0 and eagerly awaiting MS-dos 3.3.....LOL

Damn I'm getting old

[nukes]

I remember DOS 2.1 on 5.25" floppies. The first GUI I used (besides early versions of windows + MacOS) was RiscOS, which ran on ARM machines (Acorn Archimedies)
There was also AmigaOS and that wierd program on the Sinclair QL.