Subj : Re: Virtual OS Museum
To   : Javier Sturman
From : Tanausu M.
Date : Sat May 30 2026 09:30 pm

Hello Javier!

30 May 26 21:30, Tanausu wrote to Javier Sturman:


 JS>    Hello everybody!

 JS> I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems.
 JS> https://virtualosmuseum.org/

 JS> "This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone 
applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, 
VirtualBox, or UTM.
 JS> [...]

 JS> The catalogue covers, among many other things:

 JS>     The earliest mainframes: Manchester Baby test/demo programs, Mark 1 
Scheme A/B/C/T (the earliest examples of system software that could be 
considered as an OS), various EDSAC software, etc.
 JS>     Later mainframes and minicomputers: CTSS, MVS, VM/370, TOPS-10/20, 
ITS, Multics, RSX, RSTS, and more
 JS>     Workstations and Unix variants: PERQ OSes, SunOS, IRIX, OSF/1, A/UX, 
NeXTSTEP, Plan 9, various BSDs, plus Linux distributions across the decades, 
and more
 JS>     Home computers: various CP/M variants, Apple II, Commodore 8-bit 
machines, Atari 8-bit, MSX, Tandy TRS-80, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Sharp MZ, and 
more
 JS>     Personal computer operating systems: various DOS variants, OS/2, BeOS, 
Windows from 1.0 to early Longhorn betas, classic Mac OS through Mac OS X 10.5 
PPC, and more
 JS>     Mobile and embedded: PalmOS, EPOC/Symbian, Windows CE, Newton OS, 
early Android and iOS where emulation permits, QNX, etc.
 JS>     Research and obscure systems: ZetaLisp, Smalltalk environments, 
Oberon, Plan 9, and many more that few people now have ever booted"

Thanks for the contribution, it's quite good for trying out systems I've never 
seen before.

.... The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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