i believe the use case is for old tech that require win95/dos …like interfacing with old science instruments
Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’d be interested in the form factor with like a raspberry pi in there.
Less powerful than that seems like a waste.
Qkall@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
especially at that price point
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
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. Emulation almost always breaks this.
555_1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve never had a problem emulating windows 95.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?
555_1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.