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Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - Peter Gamma - 01-07-2021
does it work?:
https://betanews.com/2021/01/05/new-windows-95/
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - barray - 01-07-2021
(01-07-2021, 02:41 AM)Peter Gamma Wrote: does it work?:
https://betanews.com/2021/01/05/new-windows-95/
You only need to be able to run Electron - so probably yes, but it will be incredibly slow. Also Electron can be quite RAM heavy, so things will get really awful if you hit swap.
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - ryo - 01-07-2021
![[Image: image0.jpg]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380044594647400448/796690060887457822/image0.jpg)
yup...
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - marcih - 01-07-2021
(01-07-2021, 04:43 AM)ryo Wrote: [image of Win95 on the PP]Kickass... :O
yup...
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - KC9UDX - 01-07-2021
Yay! Now you can BSOD. What fun..
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - slate - 02-03-2021
Haha, that'll be interesting.. I was watching this the other day thinking it'd be ideal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg
Not a massive fan of the path mobile development went down, and that it dragged the desktop experience with it.
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - Peter Gamma - 02-05-2021
Many good things start small. But I'm waiting for a phone, which can run Windows 10 desktop apps.
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - TRS-80 - 02-05-2021
But why though? Microsoft have been famously hostile towards F/LOSS for many years now (decades in fact).
We are just starting to begin to be able to Have Nice Things™ (no thanks to them).
Let them (and others like them with similar dinosaur business models) just die off already.
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - Peter Gamma - 02-06-2021
Because most of the sofware I use is for windows 10. But is a virual machine with windows 10 on a phone attractive? More attractive is an OS which fits to the processor. Windows 10 desktop phones are not in sight. I asked this question before in this forum. More interesting is software like GNU Octave, which runs on Linux and can run Matlab software like EEGLAB. But I'm still waiting for a PinePhone with more RAM, and a processor which is as powerful as possible.
RE: Windows 95 on the PinePhone? - KC9UDX - 02-06-2021
That's why we're stuck with Windows. Everyone wants to use it because everyone uses it because everyone wants to use it. Get the software developer to port to a better OS, or write your own software. That's what I tend to do. I ditched Wintel when Windows 95 proved inevitable.
The fastest possible processor will never be as fast as the next one. So wait for the next one.