schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoPocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputingliliputing.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down17
arrow-up1180arrow-down1external-linkPocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputingliliputing.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-square555@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoWhile cute, it would be false advertising for a 386.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 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-up7·9 days agoThey should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 days agoGonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.
minus-square555@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 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-up3·9 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.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoIf 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.
While cute, it would be false advertising for a 386.
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.
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.