The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors
A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them
The Virtual OS Museum is an epic collection of historicallysignificant operating systems, representing more than 600 OSes across upwards of 250platforms. It’s all local, so you’ll need a good few gigs of space.
The Virtual OS Museum is agiant mixtape for enthusiasts of the history of OS evolution. As anindication of its breadth of coverage, it reaches all the way back tothe ManchesterBaby – from 1948. Multics, the Xerox Alto, NeXTstep, PowerPC Mac OSX, early versions of Windows NT and Android, and more.
It is one hefty layer-cake of code. The project offers two versions todownload. The Full edition is a whopping 121 GB download,which unpacks to 174 GB, but includes everything ready for offline use.If that’s a little indigestible, there’s also a “Lite” edition whichincludes the various emulators, but not the all the disk and tape...
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