Virtually Fun

Well, usually the internet is large and you can find lots of guides :)

I'm an avid follower of virtuallyfun.com and right now the latest post is about installing AIX on QEMU. If you look into the qemu category ( https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/category/qemu/ ) you'll find OS X Server, Unixware and more.

The author, neozeed, is very friendly and you can leave him comments or shoot him an email and he usually answers pretty in depth.

As for OS 9, I'm not sure it is as refined and functional as SheepShaver on Windows yet, but I'm on OS X, where SheepShaver takes more effort to set up. There's a modified QEMU for enhanced OS 9 compatibility (I think more G3 emulation?) here, and people managed to install 9.2: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9028

As a side-note, it's interesting that all of the released versions of NT on Alpha were 32 bit.

Raymond Chen has a blog post[0] about using Alpha to develop 64bit Windows before Itanium hardware was available.

Virtually Fun has some more excellent background on finding a compiler for 64bit Windows[1], finding a copy of Windows 2000 64bit for Alpha AXP[2], and a detailed article about making an ISO from the found copy.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc718978(v=msdn.10)

[1] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/05/05/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-64bit-dec-alpha-c-compiler/

[2] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/05/15/windows-2000-64-bit-for-alpha-axp/

[3] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/26/axp64-2210-installation-media-reconstruction/

I prefer DOSBox-X to DOSBox because it's easier to run; but it sounds like neither one is what you want.

Have you heard of or tried "MS-DOS Player"? It seems to convert binaries into a format that Windows can understand. I think you have to do it on a per-file basis so it might be more of a headache than it's worth; but it's out there!

http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/msdos/index.html (original site)

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/02/11/ms-dos-player-2/

[edit]There's also winevdm which can run 16 bit windows binaries on 64 bit windows. It has DOS support but it's incomplete and it points back to MS-DOS player in it's readme...

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

Linode respond swiftly to abuse reports[0], block outgoing SMTP by default, and prevent so many people from even registering for services that it is the #1 question people ask on their IRC channel. What more should they do? What is “enough”?

90% of the spam that I receive from a DMARC-validated sender comes from Google; should every Gmail user be punished because Google aren’t “doing enough”?

[0] Linode twice threatened to shut off services within 24 hours due to some vigilante scanning the internet with a broken virus scanner and automatically sending reports: https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/04/23/dumbass-of-the-year-award-goes-to-gerhard-recher/ (n.b. this is not my site)

Good question but I don't know.

Apple did not create A/UX. It was created by UniSoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniSoft

https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/09/19/so-what-is-the-deal-with-a-ux-anyways/

I'm guessing that Apple would have to pay a fee to both UniSoft and AT&T and maybe Sun was much larger and a partner with AT&T / Unix System Labs on SysV so maybe they could resell Solaris for cheaper.

Sun open sourced Solaris in 2008 for 2 years. Maybe AT&T / USL didn't care by then or maybe Sun's licensing agreement allowed them to do it. I don't know.

I think the best way out for SCO was if IBM bought them. But, if IBM did so, other companies could try the same attack in other opportunities. So, IBM took a route that could crush it to death, but we are almost two decades after it all began and the zombie has not been shot in the head. Hope the case effectively finishes this time.

It is really a shame. Caldera looked like a good distro:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sco

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2013/03/27/caldera-open-linux/