Virtual OS Museum Lets You Boot Over 600 Retro Operating Systems
A momentous in computing history has been achieved with the release of the Virtual OS Museum. A lone developer has collected over 1700 OS installs across over 250 emulated hardware platforms and 600 distinct operating systems. The emulation isn't just software, either. For vintage hardware with unique input devices, the interfaces have been recreated in a mouse-friendly form, giving you an idea how they were to use. The Virtual OS Museum is an all-in-one package under a single Linux VM, and is usable across various modern machines without the need to create a separate partition from your main OS. The history at your fingertips ranges from the usual suspects of early DOS and Apple systems, all the way to 1948's Manchester Baby, the first stored-program computer and the precursor to the very concept of an operating system.
The curator behind the Virtual OS Museum is Andrew Warkentin of Andrew's OS...
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