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

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andreww591 wrote: post #140
gwynforthewyn wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Several different SIMH forks are included, along with a lot of other emulators; there are well over 150 different emulators, with some having multiple versions and variants present to handle things like regressions related to specific OSes. Nested virtualization for certain x86 OSes running in QEMU is supported, although you will have to enable it manually (VirtualBox has a checkbox for this in its settings). For VMs…

Thx! You got a new, albeit small scale, patreon - this is awesome :)

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HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #96

Searched, but could not find OS/9. [edit] No, found it!

Multiple versions and variants of OS-9 are included. There are images for NitrOS-9 on CoCo and Dragon, several ports of OS-9/6809, OS-9/68K 2.4 for X68000, and OS-9000/x86 6.1.

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anthk wrote: post #97

HeliOS and transputers is one of the most interesting systems ever; if you use Golang and/or know 9front and concurrency you'll be at home, because it was concurrent and multicore literally by design where the CPU 'cores' synced themselves with messages. https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv4n4/transputer.html They were pretty much ahead of time with multiprocessing.

Helios unfortunately isn't yet included. Last time I checked the Transputer emulator doesn't support the special Helios I/O server protocol, which is different from the one that the usual occam software used. It's on my long list of emulators/OSes to fix/finish though.

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Post by em-bee »

FarmerPotato wrote: post #112
bilegeek wrote: post #63

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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...

I just received from a retired engineer, a binder of 8” floppies that says Jan 1984, AEGIS 6.0 / Mentor 3.0, Full Backup, WBAK. The owner got them from a dumpster 40 years ago, but suspects someone just reused the binder to store blank floppies. Anyhow I’m working on it. I’ve also found source for an AEGIS menu system (mouse, hotkeys) written in Forth.

it's probably not old enough, but in the mid 90s i acquired a working apollo domain workstation that was functioning as a doorstop at a university library. it came with a full set of documentation, but no floppies, i think. i don't know which version, and i don't know if it is still working now. it's gathering dust at my mothers home in europe.
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