Hello everybody!

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

"This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.
[...]

The catalogue covers, among many other things:

The earliest mainframes: Manchester Baby test/demo programs, Mark 1 Scheme A/B/C/T (the earliest examples of system software that could be considered as an OS), various EDSAC software, etc.
Later mainframes and minicomputers: CTSS, MVS, VM/370, TOPS-10/20, ITS, Multics, RSX, RSTS, and more
Workstations and Unix variants: PERQ OSes, SunOS, IRIX, OSF/1, A/UX, NeXTSTEP, Plan 9, various BSDs, plus Linux distributions across the decades, and more
Home computers: various CP/M variants, Apple II, Commodore 8-bit machines, Atari 8-bit, MSX, Tandy TRS-80, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Sharp MZ, and more
Personal computer operating systems: various DOS variants, OS/2, BeOS, Windows from 1.0 to early Longhorn betas, classic Mac OS through Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, and more
Mobile and embedded: PalmOS, EPOC/Symbian, Windows CE, Newton OS, early Android and iOS where emulation permits, QNX, etc.
Research and obscure systems: ZetaLisp, Smalltalk environments, Oberon, Plan 9, and many more that few people now have ever booted"


Javier


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Hello everybody!

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

"This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone application running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, o UTM.
[...]

The catalogue covers, among many other things:

The earliest mainframes: Manchester Baby test/demo programs, Mark 1 Sc A/B/C/T (the earliest examples of system software that could be considered an OS), various EDSAC software, etc.
Later mainframes and minicomputers: CTSS, MVS, VM/370, TOPS-10/20, ITS Multics, RSX, RSTS, and more
Workstations and Unix variants: PERQ OSes, SunOS, IRIX, OSF/1, A/UX, NeXTSTEP, Plan 9, various BSDs, plus Linux distributions across the decade and more
Home computers: various CP/M variants, Apple II, Commodore 8-bit machi Atari 8-bit, MSX, Tandy TRS-80, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Sharp MZ, and more
Personal computer operating systems: various DOS variants, OS/2, BeOS, Windows from 1.0 to early Longhorn betas, classic Mac OS through Mac OS X PPC, and more
Mobile and embedded: PalmOS, EPOC/Symbian, Windows CE, Newton OS, earl Android and iOS where emulation permits, QNX, etc.
Research and obscure systems: ZetaLisp, Smalltalk environments, Oberon Plan 9, and many more that few people now have ever booted"

Javier

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Oh wow! Worth checking out. Thanks for the tip!

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Re: Re: Virtual OS Museum
By: Bo Holt to Javier Sturman on Sat May 23 2026 10:02:56

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Oh wow! Worth checking out. Thanks for the tip!

I was there earlier today. Definitely worth checking out. Lots of screenshots.
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On 23 May 2026 at 09:13a, Javier Sturman pondered and said...

Hello everybody!

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

"This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for
QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.
[...]

The catalogue covers, among many other things:

This seems impressive. Downloading the "lite" version now.

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Hello Borax!

24 May 26 14:12, you wrote to me:

This seems impressive. Downloading the "lite" version now.

Just 14GB

Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped):
SHA256 sum: 00670e1b57ab8222c88abe7801e11791961ba6d6af300ca6a987f34b699b32f0

Lite edition (14G zipped, 21G unzipped):
SHA256 sum: d24a3d04e1dc04de56196e2a60a585784a4b8d15c6cd6b50483f814c860be501

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(3:770/100)

Javier


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Hello Javier,

23 May 26 09:13, you wrote to All:

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Wow, that's one nice piece of work there! Thanks for sharing it with us.

-- Sean

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Just 14GB

Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped):
SHA256 sum: 00670e1b57ab8222c88abe7801e11791961ba6d6af300ca6a987f34b699b32f0

Lite edition (14G zipped, 21G unzipped):
SHA256 sum: d24a3d04e1dc04de56196e2a60a585784a4b8d15c6cd6b50483f814c860be501

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Javier

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What version did you download?

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Hello Borax!

30 May 26 23:12, you wrote to me:

What version did you download?

The smallest one. :) Don't have much remaining space in dis 512GB ssd.

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Hello Javier!

30 May 26 21:30, Tanausu wrote to Javier Sturman:

Hello everybody!

I saw a post on X about an emulator for many many OS systems. https://virtualosmuseum.org/

"This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.
[...]

The catalogue covers, among many other things:

The earliest mainframes: Manchester Baby test/demo programs, Mark 1 Scheme A/B/C/T (the earliest examples of system software that could be considered as an OS), various EDSAC software, etc.
Later mainframes and minicomputers: CTSS, MVS, VM/370, TOPS-10/20, ITS, Multics, RSX, RSTS, and more
Workstations and Unix variants: PERQ OSes, SunOS, IRIX, OSF/1, A/UX, NeXTSTEP, Plan 9, various BSDs, plus Linux distributions across the decades, and more
Home computers: various CP/M variants, Apple II, Commodore 8-bit machines, Atari 8-bit, MSX, Tandy TRS-80, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Sharp MZ, and more
Personal computer operating systems: various DOS variants, OS/2, BeOS, Windows from 1.0 to early Longhorn betas, classic Mac OS through Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, and more
Mobile and embedded: PalmOS, EPOC/Symbian, Windows CE, Newton OS, early Android and iOS where emulation permits, QNX, etc.
Research and obscure systems: ZetaLisp, Smalltalk environments, Oberon, Plan 9, and many more that few people now have ever booted"

Thanks for the contribution, it's quite good for trying out systems I've never seen before.

... The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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