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Virtually Fun 探索复古计算、操作系统与各种特别的硬件。

i960 Unix 工作站 – HDS / Neoware @WorkStation

作者在1998-99年为一家财富100强公司部署Citrix TSE时，发现所谓"高端Neoware @workStation Prima"终端内部竟搭载Intel i960芯片和一套名为netOS的专有类Unix系统，按下"Don't login"按钮即可进入带shell的本地桌面。 近30年后，作者从eBay购入一台该终端，用LLM辅助逆向工程发现其并非Linux而是4.4-BSD衍生系统（i960无MMU），随后基于GCC 2.95和Binutils 2.11在当晚构建出非官方netOS SDK，目前可编译简单C程序，并计划移植SimCity。 他还发现该终端支持IDE接口的本地硬盘启动，装上一块工业DOM后即成为完整i960 Unix图形工作站。文中附有netOS文档和SDK的GitHub链接。
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用 SquashFS 和 Overlay 榨干 Web 托管和 Linux 的每一个字节

作者解决 VPS 磁盘占满（29G 用了 93%）的问题，用 SquashFS 把博客文档根目录压缩成只读镜像（5.6GB→4.5GB，压缩率约 82.78%），再叠加 overlayfs 让写入落到 COW 上层目录，实现"压缩只读底层 + 可写上层"的网站部署方案。 文中给出了 mksquashfs、mount、/etc/fstab 配置的具体命令，并提到 Linux 5.15 后 overlayfs 模块已改名为 overlay。作者还顺带展示了把 Windows NT 3.1 VMDK 镜像 squash 成 71MB 并做 QEMU backing 文件的操作。 实用性强，适合运维/VPS 用户参考。
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在 macOS 上用 QEMU 模拟 Itanium 架构运行 Windows XP

有人在 macOS 上用 QEMU 的 Itanium Merced 模拟分支成功跑起了 Windows XP ia64 版本。作者详细记录了从交叉编译 GCC 15.3、binutils 2.46 到配置 QEMU 的完整过程，包括遇到的 fdopen 宏冲突、pthread 缺失等坑及解决方案。 XP 2600 和 Windows Server 2462 都能安装运行，但其他系统如 HP-UX、VMS 暂未成功。
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VNC Brave

(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox) Previously I have cobbled up this FIrefox+VNC Docker container – “VNCFOX” to address some shortcomings of web browsing on vintage computers. It worke...
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Pinball on 64-Bit Alpha AXP Windows NT

This is a guest post from Yufeng Gao One of the most popular OS built-in games is no doubt Pinball, known by its full name 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet. It started out as Full Tilt! Pinball, d...
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Flashing the ES40 Dec Alpha

Since this will no doubt come up, let’s make this a separate post. I’ve put the files up on ( arc programmed / bare programmed) but here are the steps to program your own flash, just like you’ve gotte...
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Brave macOS LAN Access

(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki) This is one of these “note to myself” and hopefully it will help someone else as the internets and robots are not very helpful. Problem: on a Mac, Brave Browse...
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Fun with POSX subsystem on NT

Well this is going to be a seemingly pointless post but you know I love stuff like this. I’d already gotten GCC 1.40 to run on the Windows NT 1991December Pre-Release, but that’s all Win32, what about...
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Running back to 2002 (the hard way)

This honestly should have been much easier. Or maybe I’ve just forgotten how absolutely hostile early OS X could be. The mistake begins It started, as these things always do, with someone mentioning t...
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SABRE Fighter Plane Simulator for Windows NT RISC

(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox) SABRE is a little known flight / fighter combat simulator set around F-86 and MiG-15 jet fighters and Korean War. Developed by Dan Hammer and origina...
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