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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

#231

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

Ran it on a 32k/64k Color Computer.

So did I actually. Was also on an OS-9000 based project for a short while.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there are a lot of obscure OSs out there.

I'd watch this if I were you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs

Text article, instead of video, for other video-haters like me...

https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm

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

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there are a lot of obscure OSs out there.

Oh, yeah! I think ASUS also had something like that at some point.

There were multiple ones, including some by BIOS vendors offered to many hardware OEMs.

Hyperspace was one of the most widely-seen.

https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm

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

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Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put the icons in the different tabs of the paper folder?

I believe you are speaking of Tabworks?

HP had several innovative GUIs of its own, before Microsoft destroyed the market with a good enough one of its own.

NewWave was its first and long predated even Windows 3.

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

HP was once a UI and GUI pioneer and did other quite radical stuff.

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

TabWorks wasn't an HP thing -- it just bundled it with some consumer Compaq kit.

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

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

#236
Honestly it looks like it's probably a wonderful project but it really hurts my eyes to read with the website style. I don't mean "it's so bad it hurts my eyes" but literally the colours/contrast make it quite intense and straining to look at and read through.

Might be great to add a more plain/non fancy UI mode on the website viewers can switch to.

I've got a much more readable version by just disabling these 2 CSS elements and saving it as an override as a quick fix for myself

    root{
        --vw-grid: rgba(255, 43, 214, .55);
    }
and

    body{
    background: linear-gradient(180deg, var(--vw-sun-top) 0%, var(--vw-sun-mid) 50%, var(--vw-sun-bot) 100%);
    }
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