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...)
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a1o 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?
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simianpirate 33 minutes ago
I believe you are speaking of Tabworks?
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Avamander 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.
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andreww591 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?
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SkiFire13 30 minutes ago
Is there a way to see a list of the operating systems included without having to download and run the tool?
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cf100clunk 45 seconds ago
I hope so, and also that it is a plain black-and-white list.
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nlitsme 14 minutes ago
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.

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terminalbraid 3 minutes ago
No VMS
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sdbillin 19 minutes ago
Could really do with a torrent. 120GB at 3MB/sec...
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pfcd 42 minutes ago
Also might be of interest: http://www.typewritten.org/
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WillAdams 8 minutes ago
Nice! They have HP's NewWave (which I was always fond of)
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Teever 20 minutes ago
Very neat to see this project come to completion Andreww.

Are 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.

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AnimalMuppet 55 minutes ago
Wow. That was a bit of nostalgia, just to read some of the names.
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juvoly 54 minutes ago
Yeah! Browsing through the screenshots truly feels like watching vintage porn.
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hoansdz 20 minutes ago
You can only view the operating system, you can't view those websites again, haha.
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newer_vienna 55 minutes ago
Is TempleOS in here?
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f311a 17 minutes ago
Could not find it.
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ZebusJesus 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.
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TheSkyHasEyes 37 minutes ago
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ktm5j 23 minutes ago
That doesn't answer his question.. looks like there isn't a comprehensive list of what's actually included. Maybe for legal reasons but that's just a guess.
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theYipster 24 minutes ago
This is awesome.
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Alex_bith 15 minutes ago
[dead]
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VladoIvankovic 16 minutes ago
Cool
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