Fantastic job, albeit a 120 GB download is a herculean task though. I would have provided just the disk image as a separate image, most people on HN probably already know how to spin up their VMs and you can always download UTM, VirtualBox or whatever by youself without having to put it in the ZIP file
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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#192Could really do with a torrent. 120GB at 3MB/sec...
I've now added some torrents to the download page (using archive.org as a web seed).
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#193Sorry for the issues with downloads from earlier. The server I was trying to host it on had a failing disk. I now have torrents up, and the direct download links are to archive.org.
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#194Some I would love to see:
- Convergent Technologies CTOS
- Whatever the Rational R1000 ran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000)
- OS/400 (emulating an AS/400 or IBMi is problematic - not enough information available)
- Tandem's NonStop
- Stratus' VOS
- Nixdorf's NIROS/TAMOS
- Data General's RDOS and AOS. DG/UX is also kind of rare (the 88000 was a flop, but it ran on the Eclipse platform)
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#195Impressive curation effort. One comment: at least a few of the examples in the gallery seem to be of the "last, greatest" version, which actually isn't necessarily the greatest, and definitely not the most interesting. For example, the "Domain_OS SR10.4 - 01 VUE desktop" is a bit confusing, and may cause people to miss actual DomainOS. Apollo DomainOS (or Domain/IX, or simply Domain) had many unique and interesting t…
Yeah, I should probably add screenshots of earlier versions of those (or in the case of Domain/OS, screenshots of dm).
Rather than just another name for Domain/OS, Domain/IX was actually a Unix compatibility layer that was an add-on product for pre-SR10 AEGIS versions, with SR10 merging it into the base OS (pre-SR10 had no built-in Unix compatibility).
AFAIK even though it's usually associated more with HP-UX, VUE actually originated at Apollo before HP bought them, although I'm not sure if they ever actually released it before the acquisition.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few weeks ago I met a guy with the same first name, but his last name was Head. No joke. I spared him the jokes.
Bet he wishes his surname was Bastard. Rich Bastard.
That's great! He is a friend of a friend of my mother, I'll suggest that she call him that!
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#197I absolutely LOVE your UI! And the content is fantastic as well.
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#198My first operating system and GUI was GEOS on the Commodore 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Is PC/GEOS (GeoWorks Ensemble) in there ? Or does it count as a DOS application ?
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#199Some I would love to see: - Convergent Technologies CTOS - Whatever the Rational R1000 ran ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 ) - OS/400 (emulating an AS/400 or IBMi is problematic - not enough information available) - Tandem's NonStop - Stratus' VOS - Nixdorf's NIROS/TAMOS - Data General's RDOS and AOS. DG/UX is also kind of rare (the 88000 was a flop, but it ran on the Eclipse platform)
As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.
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#200No 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.
When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.