andreww591

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by andreww591 4mo ago
DG/UX for x86, CTOS, AOS, and RDOS are already included. I hadn't included the R1000 emulator because originally they emulated it at the logic gate level and it literally took a week to boot. It looks like they now have a more tra
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Yeah, I should probably add screenshots of earlier versions of those (or in the case of Domain/OS, screenshots of dm). Rather than just another name for Domain/OS, Domain/IX was actually a Unix compatibility layer that was an
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Sorry for the issues with downloads from earlier. The server I was trying to host it on had a failing disk. I now have torrents up, and the direct download links are to archive.org.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I've now added some torrents to the download page (using archive.org as a web seed).
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Helios unfortunately isn't yet included. Last time I checked the Transputer emulator doesn't support the special Helios I/O server protocol, which is different from the one that the usual occam software used. It's on my
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Several older versions of VMS are included, with the latest being 7.3 for Alpha.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Multiple versions and variants of OS-9 are included. There are images for NitrOS-9 on CoCo and Dragon, several ports of OS-9/6809, OS-9/68K 2.4 for X68000, and OS-9000/x86 6.1.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
PC/IX 1.0, AIX PS/2 1.3, and AIX/6000 4.3.3 are included; I just didn't post any screenshots of them.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I wish I could do that, but there are a lot of emulators that don't have web versions, and the launcher and related scripts are very heavily dependent on a Unix-like OS and there is no way to port them to JS (a completely separate laun
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I haven't yet included a full list, but I guess I could include one. All of those OSes you mentioned are included. BTRON isn't a single OS, but a small family of OSes based on a common specification (just like Unix is); the OS mus
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Yeah, they're very common. Some emulators like QEMU and MAME have many different versions included in order to deal with regressions.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
TOPS-20 4.1 and 7.1 are both included. I'm not aware of any fully working TENEX images unfortunately. There are partial images, but last time I checked they weren't in a state that was even remotely usable.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
The vast majority were downloaded. A few I got when I exchanged compilation DVDs with someone in Finland in 2006 and 2009 (I uploaded the images on those to BetaArchive back then and they've made their way onto various other sites). Th
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by andreww591 4mo ago
The last version of TempleOS is included, but I installed it myself, and I didn't bother to include most of the images that I just installed by myself in the credits. I'm also planning to add earlier versions as well as the later
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Several different SIMH forks are included, along with a lot of other emulators; there are well over 150 different emulators, with some having multiple versions and variants present to handle things like regressions related to specific OSes.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
NetWare 4.11 and 6.5 are included, but just don't have any screenshots on the site (the screenshots are not exhaustive at all and just a small sampling of what's there). And even though there weren't very many 286 protected-m
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by andreww591 4mo ago
That was Voyetra Audiostation, and I definitely remember having it on the Packard Bell 486 that was my family's first computer (which was already obsolete when we got it, since we got the cheapest machine they had; it was on clearance
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I've heard of custom shells for Windows before, but not that specific one
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I've got Pick PC R83 V3.1 included. The screenshots on the front page are a very small sampling of what's there.
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Yeah, I'd definitely like to see older versions of AEGIS as well
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by andreww591 4mo ago
Yeah, MAME has had working Apollo emulation since around 2010. Domain/OS is definitely pretty odd. You could almost mistake SR10 for a normal functional Unix if you use the SysV or BSD universes rather than the AEGIS one, but while it
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by andreww591 4mo ago
I don't think I've heard of an alternate shell/launcher like that before. Do you remember what it was called?
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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of(virtualosmuseum.org)
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by andreww591 1y ago
At least for certain types of OSes, it should be relatively easy to get most of Linux's hardware support by porting LKL ( https://github.com/lkl/linux ) and adding appropriate hooks to access hardware. Of course, yo
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by andreww591 2y ago
I'm a little bit skeptical as to how successful a hard fork of Linux that only differs from the mainline kernel by having a bit more Rust code actually would be. If you're going to rewrite significant parts of the kernel, you migh
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by andreww591 2y ago
Like I said, it's not meant to be a "Rust OS" and will incorporate a lot of C code still (and various other languages as well). I doubt that the kernel will ever get completely rewritten in Rust, although eventually some Rust
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by andreww591 2y ago
Redox's IPC is a fair bit weaker of a design than that of QNX or my seL4-derived kernel. It works sort of like that of QNX in that it has direct copying of messages between address spaces and RPC-like semantics with direct context swit
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by andreww591 2y ago
Basically I'm trying to write a better Linux than Linux and a better QNX than QNX, at least for certain use cases that is. At least initially, my primary focus is on workstation/enthusiast desktops and higher-end embedded systems
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by andreww591 2y ago
It's not completely "legacy-free", nor is it purely capability-oriented, but I'm writing a QNX-like OS ( https://gitlab.com/uxrt/uxrt-toplevel ) based on a kernel forked from seL4 with a preference fo