{"id":8217,"date":"2004-11-16T01:22:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/16\/which-os-are-you\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T23:21:04","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T20:21:04","slug":"which-os-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/16\/which-os-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Which OS Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Windows“Which OS Are You?<\/a>” poll is circulating the blogs these days. Lots of people take it and they turn out to be “OS\/2”, and than there are so happy that they aren’t “Windows ME”. Well, I guess I got closer to “Windows ME” than most of them, because I turned out to be “Windows 95”.<\/p>\n

The description is as follows:<\/p>\n

You are Windows 95<\/b> You look better than your older brother but your communication skills are still lacking. You start well, but often zone out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, what was all that about “older brother”. I am an older brother. You do they mean RMS? :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“Which OS Are You?” poll is circulating the blogs these days. Lots of people take it and they turn out to be “OS\/2”, and than there are so happy that they aren’t “Windows ME”. Well, I guess I got closer to “Windows ME” than most of them, because I turned out to be “Windows 95”. … Continue reading Which OS Are You?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1531],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-operating-systems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15470,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/06\/the-purpose-of-an-operating-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":8217,"position":0},"title":"The purpose of an operating system","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across a good reminder of the operating system's purpose in this Slashdot comment: The point of an OS is to make the software independent of the underlying hardware. 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