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
        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.