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This could be a nice OS for archive.org's browser embedded PC emulator environment: https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox https://archive.org/details/win9

• telendram 5y ago
  I think the pb is that it's so barebone that pretty much nothing works out of the box. One has to add a few more components, depending on which application needs to run (as an OS alone is, well, not an end in itself). However, that's where it stings : adding "components", yet but which ones ? in which order ? how ? Componentization was not a topic, so there's no tool, almost no doc, just tribal knowledge on the topic. That makes it essentially useless for the vast majority of humanity.
  • Maakuth 5y ago
    That does make sense. I suppose one could gather a record by hooking the kernel to log which files were accessed and which were not. But that would be a lot of trouble and the end result would just kill the cacheability of the base OS layer of those emulation images.