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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by NikolaNovak »

Pardon a simple question - this implies nested virtualization, or is the second step emulation?

The download is a Linux VM, gotcha.

Are other OS-s nested virtual machines inside that Linux VM, or emulators (in which case, holly mackerel, that is even more impressive :O... and also why??).

Readme seems to imply it's emulators, but it also uses the words "virtual/virtualization" or "VM images" liberally sprinkled.

Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by bilegeek »

eichin wrote: post #16

I hadn't realized Domain/OS emulation was viable these days. It's one of the few systems that has actually "lost" features - the terminal-window-like thing (called pads, I think?) when in line mode had a dividing line at the bottom where your unconsumed typeahead was visible and you could continue to edit it until it got read - not just one line, the entire unconsumed input. (Not that it's a particularly desirable fe…

Unfortunately, pre-Domain/OS AEGIS is basically lost. One person popped up with talk of imaging their 9.6 floppies, but I haven't seen anything since then.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/groups/retrocomputers/posts/7062462...

Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by gwynforthewyn »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #61

Pardon a simple question - this implies nested virtualization, or is the second step emulation? The download is a Linux VM, gotcha. Are other OS-s nested virtual machines inside that Linux VM, or emulators (in which case, holly mackerel, that is even more impressive :O... and also why??). Readme seems to imply it's emulators, but it also uses the words "virtual/virtualization" or "VM images" liberally sprinkled.

I imagine the author's using OpenSIMH (https://opensimh.org) or something similar, so it'd be an emulated CPU running the userlands.

I have a container that runs a 4.3 BSD userland using opensimh; it's not super hard to set up, just takes a bit of patience and willingness to learn how opensimh works.

Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by simonh »

No Pick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

My first actual job was working for a local health authority here in the UK, and they had a Pick computer running some database application thing, I think to do with accounting. I had to run the backups. Sorry to be a whinger, I don't mean to belittle the monumental amount of work.

Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by leoxiv »

ZebusJesus wrote: post #25
f311a wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could not find it.

Blasphemy, all shall know the power of Holy-C! Sad that he struggled in life like he did and the way it ended, he was a brilliant programmer.

It's still good that his memory lives on though. Even in communities where technology isn't the focus I still see mentions of him from time to time.
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