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

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

TL;DR

  • The Virtual OS Museum offers over 1,700 OS installations for over 250 platforms.
  • It is largely the work of developer and OS historian Andrew Warkentin.
  • The collection covers operating systems from 1948 (Manchester Baby) to 2011 (early Android).
  • It includes obscure OSes like DOS variants, MOS, and hobby OSes such as NitrOS-9.
  • The downloaded images typically include only the base OS and its included software.
  • The full version of the museum is 127GB zipped, while the Lite edition is 14GB.