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Most people don't think of them as computer systems, but late-90s and early-2000s phone and PDA OSes. Specifically, EPOC32/Symbian, Apple Newton, BlackberryOS,
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Most people don't think of them as computer systems, but late-90s and early-2000s phone and PDA OSes. Specifically, EPOC32/Symbian, Apple Newton, BlackberryOS, PalmOS, Qualcomm RexOS, and Windows CE/PocketPC/Mobile (and its later incarnation Windows Phone/10 Mobile)
Newer calculators, like the TI-Nspire Cx-series and HP Prisms.
Proprietary non-linear editing systems from the 80s and 90s before the switchover to software.
A few legacy systems that haven't quite been emulated yet are BeOS, and RISCOS, certain proprietary Unix implementations like A/UX, Amix, Irix, NeXtOS, Apollo DomainOS, AIX, PA-RISC, Ultrix, etc., and Japanese PCs like the PC-98, PC-88, Sharp X1, Sharp X6800, and FM-Towns
Minicomputer hardware, like VAX Machines, DEC Alpha Systems, and DECstations, are also lacking in good emulation, but the OSes (OpenVMS and Ultrix) are available to hobbyists.
Itanium has not so far been emulated, so IA-64 versions of Windows are probably going to be lost (as no more IA-64 processors are being made) should nothing be done.
- the_only_law 5y agoI have a feeling OpenVMS won’t run on Alpha much longer. The recent company that acquired it seems really set in commercializing an x86 port. No idea how successful that’s gonna be.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoJudging by your comment history, you seem to take quite a bit of interest in DEC. Did you ever work with the company or its products?
- swiley 5y agoApple Newton has an emulator. A lot of the other PDA OSes from the naughties are portable and have public (non-free) source code so simulators probably make more sense.