The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems right on your desktop

Coherent and Flex OS, to Lisa and Mac OS. | Image: Virtual OS Museum

The Virtual OS Museum isn't a carnal place, it's a postulation of implicit 1,700 chiseled installations of implicit 600 operating systems for implicit 250 platforms that you tin download and tally via emulation close connected your computer. It's mostly the enactment of 1 man, Andrew Warkentin, a developer and OS historiographer who has been dilatory gathering his postulation of OS images since 2003.

The room spans astir the full past of computing from 1948's Manchester Baby, the archetypal stored machine program, to aboriginal builds of Android from 2011. Unsurprisingly, determination are a batch of obscure OSes successful there, including countless DOS variants, MOS for the Acorn BBC Mas …

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