I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
122 points by andreww591 2 hours ago | 25 comments
eichin 21 minutes ago
I hadn't realized Domain/OS emulation was viable these days. It's one of the few systems that has actually "lost" features - the terminal-window-like thing (called pads, I think?) when in line mode had a dividing line at the bottom where your unconsumed typeahead was visible and you could continue to edit it until it got read - not just one line, the entire unconsumed input. (Not that it's a particularly desirable feature - it's just one that I'm pretty sure you can't implement with ptys...)
replya1o 60 minutes ago
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?
replyAvamander 51 minutes ago
Your comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there's a lot of obscure OSs out there.
replyandreww591 51 minutes ago
I don't think I've heard of an alternate shell/launcher like that before. Do you remember what it was called?
replySkiFire13 30 minutes ago
Is there a way to see a list of the operating systems included without having to download and run the tool?
replynlitsme 14 minutes ago
quite a decent collection. and actual working osses.
replyone 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.
ChrisArchitect 39 minutes ago
replyTeever 20 minutes ago
Very neat to see this project come to completion Andreww.
replyAre there any any operating systems that you'd like to add to the collection but haven't been able to find?
Maybe someone here at HN could help with that.
newer_vienna 55 minutes ago
Is TempleOS in here?
replyf311a 17 minutes ago
Could not find it.
replyZebusJesus 4 minutes ago
Blasphemy, all shall know the power of Holy-C! Sad that he struggled in life like he did and the way it ended, he was a brilliant programmer.
replyTheSkyHasEyes 37 minutes ago
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