schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoPocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputingliliputing.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoIf the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.
minus-square555@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoThey should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoGonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.
minus-square555@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoI have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoFaster 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.
If the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.
They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.
Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.
I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.
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.