Andrew Warkentin's Virtual OS Museum Collects 174GB of Ready-to-Use Vintage Operating Systems
Developer and vintage computing historian Andrew Warkentin has released the most exhaustive collection of operating systems you could imagine, all ready to run in a virtual machine: the Virtual OS Museum.
"I am (finally) releasing the Virtual OS Museum, which is the world's first multi-platform interactive virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications, implemented as a Linux VM [Virtual Machine]," Warkentin explains of the impressive undertaking. "Nearly all well-known OSes and platforms (and many obscure ones) are included in some form, spanning the entire history of stored-program computing from the 1948 Manchester Baby to the present day. This is the result of over 20 years of collecting emulators and VM images; over 1700 VM installations are included, across over 250 platforms, representing nearly 600 distinct OSes."
While plenty of effort has been put into preserving classic games and software packages, less thought is usually given to the operating systems...
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