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  Huge collection of old OSes RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-08 20:57 +0000
    Re: Huge collection of old OSes Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-11 15:53 -0700
      Re: Huge collection of old OSes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-15 10:34 +0000
        Re: Huge collection of old OSes Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-06-15 22:01 +0100

#3573 — Huge collection of old OSes

From the «emulate me, baby» department:
Title: Huge collection of old operating systems
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:17:41 -0400
Link: http://osnews.com/story/27772/Huge_collection_of_old_operating_systems

This site calls itself 'the biggest free abandonware downloads collection in
the universe'. No idea if that's true or not, but all I can say is that I
spent a lot - a lot - of time today browsing through the incredibly extensive
collection of old operating systems. From an alpha release of Windows 1.0 to
NEXTSTEP, this site has it all. Great for emulators.

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#3629

On 2014-06-08 20:57:56 +0000, RS Wood said:

> From the «emulate me, baby» department:
> Title: Huge collection of old operating systems
> Author: Thom Holwerda
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:17:41 -0400
> Link: http://osnews.com/story/27772/Huge_collection_of_old_operating_systems
> 
> This site calls itself 'the biggest free abandonware downloads collection in
> the universe'. No idea if that's true or not, but all I can say is that I
> spent a lot - a lot - of time today browsing through the incredibly extensive
> collection of old operating systems. From an alpha release of Windows 1.0 to
> NEXTSTEP, this site has it all. Great for emulators.

Thanks for this.  I should mention that the actual site is 
vetusware.com - osnews.com is a clickbait site.

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#3671

On 2014-06-11, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2014-06-08 20:57:56 +0000, RS Wood said:
>
>> From the «emulate me, baby» department:
>> Title: Huge collection of old operating systems
>> Author: Thom Holwerda
>> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:17:41 -0400
>> Link: http://osnews.com/story/27772/Huge_collection_of_old_operating_systems
>> 
>> This site calls itself 'the biggest free abandonware downloads
>> collection in the universe'. No idea if that's true or not, but all I
>> can say is that I spent a lot - a lot - of time today browsing
>> through the incredibly extensive collection of old operating systems.
>> From an alpha release of Windows 1.0 to NEXTSTEP, this site has it
>> all. Great for emulators.
>
> Thanks for this.  I should mention that the actual site is
> vetusware.com - osnews.com is a clickbait site.
>

I wouldn't characterize OSNews as a clickbait site.  It's a news
aggregator, same as Slashdot and others.  I've been reading them since
'00 or '01 and it's halfway decent, but slipping.  It was started by a
woman intimately connected to the BeOS scene, but they cover news of all
OSes.  The past couple of years the lead editor has been focusing on
mobile, and the site has always had an unholy fascination with
critiquing user interfaces.  They're losing readers and probably money,
so I see more and more ads in their site now, which is too bad - it will
look like www.linuxtoday.com.  Now *that's* a clickbait site, a shadow
of its former (awesome) self back in '01.

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#3690

RS Wood wrote:

> I wouldn't characterize OSNews as a clickbait site.  It's a news
> aggregator, same as Slashdot and others.

I kind of went off it a few years ago, still visit it every few months

> I've been reading them since
> '00 or '01 and it's halfway decent, but slipping.  It was started by a
> woman intimately connected to the BeOS scene

And was (or went on to be?) the missus of the ex-Android chap JBQ ...

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