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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd be interested in the form factor with like a raspberry pi in there.

Less powerful than that seems like a waste.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The point is not power but hardware compatibility. Emulation only goes so far and many, if not most, weird esoteric hardware systems from the 90s depended on idiosyncracies and strange usage of standard busses and weird interactions of the CPU. Emulation almost always breaks this.

[–] 555_1@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never had a problem emulating windows 95.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

[–] 555_1@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Tell me you've never tried it without telling me you've never tried it.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure you're the first to think of this! You'll be rich!

[–] 555_1@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Let me Google that for you.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

also most of those USB adapters likely won't support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

i believe the use case is for old tech that require win95/dos ...like interfacing with old science instruments