Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95
  • 555@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.

      • 555@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Faster isn’t always better – there’s software from the era that relied on hardware limitations to throttle itself – but I’d think that emulators probably have pretty good support for such throttling.

        • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          If someone wanted emulation, wouldn’t they have bought one of the many other tiny laptops that have been on the market for years?

          I think the point of this is to run natively on vintage hardware.