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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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lorenzohess wrote: post #121

I don't see TempleOS here unfortunately https://gitlab.com/virtualosmuseum/virtualosmuseum/-/blob/ma...

The last version of TempleOS is included, but I installed it myself, and I didn't bother to include most of the images that I just installed by myself in the credits.

I'm also planning to add earlier versions as well as the later forks at some point.

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kramit1288 wrote: post #38

quite impressive, how did you collected? just find images online or you actually have all of these OS.

The vast majority were downloaded. A few I got when I exchanged compilation DVDs with someone in Finland in 2006 and 2009 (I uploaded the images on those to BetaArchive back then and they've made their way onto various other sites). The only ones that I have that were installed from images I dumped from original media that hadn't been previously shared were LynxOS 4.0 and MaxOS Linux (not to be confused with macOS, it was an obscure early-2000s commercial Slackware fork from a company that was semi-local to me; the CD was given to me back then by somebody at a long-defunct local computer store).

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tankenmate wrote: post #47

TENEX and TOPS-20 would be nice

TOPS-20 4.1 and 7.1 are both included.

I'm not aware of any fully working TENEX images unfortunately. There are partial images, but last time I checked they weren't in a state that was even remotely usable.

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

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danborn26 wrote: post #101

This is a great resource. Did you run into any weird emulation quirks with the older OSes? I imagine getting some of them to boot wasn't straightforward.

Yeah, they're very common. Some emulators like QEMU and MAME have many different versions included in order to deal with regressions.

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

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CalRobert wrote: post #84
simonh wrote: post #66

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.

What a legendary name for the developer.

Omg, I am dead. Dick Pick. That is the best name, not just for a developer :D

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

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Post by nullsanity »

CalRobert wrote: post #84
simonh wrote: post #66

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.

What a legendary name for the developer.

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

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zzo38computer wrote: post #136

Is there a proper full list without needing to download the very big ZIP archive file? I don't know if it includes "every operating system I can think of". I can think of some things: TempleOS, BTRON (there might be more than one implementation; I know of an (apparently) abandoned FOSS implementation), Serenity OS, and some others that I do not remember what they are called. Also, what might be useful for preservatio…

I haven't yet included a full list, but I guess I could include one.

All of those OSes you mentioned are included. BTRON isn't a single OS, but a small family of OSes based on a common specification (just like Unix is); the OS museum includes the demo 1B/V3 and Chokanji 4. The FOSS BTRON implementation you're thinking of is almost certainly B-free/EOTA, which is also included. EOTA never actually implemented BTRON proper before it got abandoned. It basically just ended up being like a Unix based on an ITRON kernel.

Documentation for some OSes is included, although I've focused more on user/administrator documentation over developer documentation. It would probably be a good idea to include developer documentation though.

I've thought about making individual images available for download, but many of them are dependent on particular emulator versions and/or the common launch scripts so it isn't quite that simple.

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

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d3Xt3r wrote: post #147

Would've been cooler if the emulator was implemented within the browser itself, lke DistroSea, or Archive.org.

I wish I could do that, but there are a lot of emulators that don't have web versions, and the launcher and related scripts are very heavily dependent on a Unix-like OS and there is no way to port them to JS (a completely separate launcher and scripts would have to be written).

It sucks that there's no good way to port Linux directly to WASM UML-style, since WASM insists on implementing memory safety at the bytecode level with no way to bypass it. There is a very limited port, but it doesn't support paging. Not all the emulators would run on a full-featured WASM port if one existed, but that could be dealt with by just using user-mode QEMU to run whichever ones are x86-only.

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