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Operating System | What "UPTIME" Means
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DOS | Doesnt exist? Bill said: use your clock and do it yourself, morons! (or buy microsoft assembler, aka masm!) but yeah, it does exist, if you count the BIOS's system timer (ticks since boot on irq 10, ax=cant remember)
Windows 95 | How long windows has been running with no other programs running.
Windows 98 | Amount of time since the last "Fatal Exception OE at XXXX:XXXX" occurred
Windows XP | How long you haven't ran internet explorer and in turn, hijacked by backorifice(virus)
Windows Vista | How long system installation or startup is taking <- past this? you are on borrowed uptime!
Windows 7 | How long since the last corruption causing boot-deadly "Missing Operating System"
Windows 8 | Unless it came pre-installed, it will always be zero.
Windows 10 | How much time has passed since either tuesday or when you got frustrated with nvidia driver crashes.
Windows 11 | How much time that god has shown you mercy, while wearing glasses and an earpiece toting a small mouse.
Commodore 64/128 | Get ready for nostalgia!
| POKE 646,6<ENTER> <-- yes i know this is very mean, i promise i wont do it again
| 10 PRINT PEEK(160)":"PEEK(161)":"PEEK(162)<ENTER>
| READY.
| RUN<ENTER>
| 0 : 192 : 54
| READY.
| 10 DATA 160,161,162<ENTER>
| 20 FOR I=1 TO 3 : READX : PRINTX : NEXT I<ENTER>
| RUN
| 0
| 192
| 54
| READY.<ENTER>
| <UP>
| ?OUT OF DATA ERROR.
| READY.
|
Apple II | How would we know? Do they even keep time?
MAC Classic | How much time has passed since the company purchased and turned it on, and pulled out the power button.
MAC OS9 | How long since you tried to use a DOS application
MAC OSX | How long since you arrived at your workstation, not to exceed company hours!
Linux | How long since the last power outage that lasted long enough for your UPS to fail
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somehow the expanded tabs got put back in even though they were converted to spaces, hmmm

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