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[Project] Just released: a virtual museum with nearly every OS you can think of... (virtualosmuseum.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Want to see the earliest resident monitors? The ancestor of all modern OSes (CTSS)? The earliest versions of Unix? The first OS with a desktop metaphor GUI (Xerox Star Pilot/ViewPoint)? Early versions of mainstream OSes? If you want to explore historical OSes and platforms without having to worry about configuring/installing emulators and OSes or corrupting emulated installations, you’ve come to the right place.

Just about every well-known OS and platform (and also a lot of obscure ones) is included in some form, spanning the entire history of stored-program computing from the Manchester Baby of 1948 (the first stored-program computer) to the present day.

associated blog post

https://andreww591.blogspot.com/2026/05/ive-released-virtual-museum-with-nearly.html?m=1

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago*

Knew someone would have gone and looked lol, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Gonna HAVE to dink around in that sooner or later. Maybe I'll stumble onto god or something weirder 🤷‍♂️

Edit: and that's what I get for reading approximately zero here lol, thought some lunatic had hosted all these and made them available to play with in that way somehow. Which would be a huge amount of work and several other things.

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