Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95
  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • 555@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

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

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        5 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·
          5 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·
            5 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·
            5 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.