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Very impressive! You can even start an X11 session (startx), open dillo (a web browser), and open the emulator webpage within itself!

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Two years ago I started Chromium under Bellard JSLinux. The only version (32) I found that did not require SSE instructions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwO8xuhb9OwrV1ZzT3ktX3hPb0...

Both this and JSLinux don't implement X86, right?

JSLinux is running an X86 emulator. You can start Windows 2000 on it.

This is interesting and very impressive, though if you go to a website like http://ifconfig.io you get a different IP then your own public IP.

Wouldn’t that be expected?

Not if it's running entirely in my browser and therefore using my network stack - in the same way "icanhazip.com" when looked at in your browser should show your own IP.

edit: `curl icanhazip.com` returns 107.170.233.148 which seems to belong to digital ocean. It also matches the host relay.widgetry.org which is refered in the demo URL as as a "relayURL". I have no idea how it's working or why though - the lack of ip or ifconfig in the VM upsets me ;)

Maybe they tunnel all network requests through their server to make it work? Afaik you can't just make arbitrary tcp/udp request from a webpage to any host, so they must be tunneling the data via their own server.

Yep! http://www.benjamincburns.com/2013/11/10/jor1k-ethmac-suppor...

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