Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95
      • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        6 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
          6·
          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.