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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 whartung »

rogster wrote: post #62

This is wonderful. I'm looking forward to looking thru it properly. My earliest "real computer" memories are VAX/VMS and SunTools...

I wrote a SunTools front end to a simulation hosted on a VAX. I don't recall how we moved the data back and forth (serial port of some kind, most likely). I also can't recall "what it was like using SunTools and SunView". Just that, whatever or however it was done, I managed to get it to work. :)

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Post by patja »

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.

Similar experience here. I worked on an ERP system for a chemical distributor that ran on 5 Honeywell Ultimate systems distributed across the US. General ledger, order management, warehouse order pick lists, chemical recipes, MSDS data, inventory, etc. We synced database updates every night, and once a month someone had to spend the night in the datacenter swapping 9 track tapes for backups.

I loved working in Pick BASIC on those systems. So much you could do with "dict items"

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

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.

Ha. My first SW job interview was for a programmer on a Pick system at some small company in Manhattan. I think they were involved in publishing or something. Anyway, the salary they offered was so pitifully low all I could do was politely decline. Was too young to even know that I could negotiate.

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Post by davidgnz »

whartung wrote: post #90
nlitsme wrote: post #23

quite a decent collection. and actual working osses. one that i noticed missing: Novell Netware, I spent several years in de 90s developing software for it. It was the main office network server software on those days. 3.x, 4.x ran on relatively regular 32-bit PC server hardware. 2.x ran on the 80286 in protected mode, the only OS I know which did that. Copies can be found at archive.org.

Mind, I never used Netware. But, originally wasn't it mostly a network system to support network printers and file systems? BTRIEVE would run on top of that. But, as I understand it, Netware wasn't required. They just went together really well. Finally, especially with Netware 386, they supported "NLMs". "Netware Loadable Modules". This was what let you deploy applications to the network server. Some databases ported…

I think NLMs are effectively kernel modules. No memory protection, and only cooperative multitasking. So I doubt there were much in the way of limits on what an NLM could do.

I think they were usually developed in C. Metrowerks had a compiler that could build them, and Open Watcom can still do so as well.

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Post by anthk »

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.

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Post by kmoser »

SkiFire13 wrote: post #12

Is there a way to see a list of the operating systems included without having to download and run the tool?

It took me a few minutes to determine that this is basically software that one can download, not a website that showcases screenshots from all those OSes. A search feature would be great, or even just a text list of all included OSes.

I'm also wondering whether/how they include OSes from devices that VICE already emulates, since that could save some work if they want to include OSes of Commodore devices.

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

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Post by morphle »

dmitrygr wrote: post #69
sdbillin wrote: post #19

Could really do with a torrent. 120GB at 3MB/sec...

If my download ever finishes i'll spin up a torrent. So far on retry/resume #12, 97.3/120GB done (i am live updating this comment as long as i can)

much appreciated!
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