Windows 95 Running in the Browser

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23 points·athousandsteps··11 comments

It's kind of funny to see emulations of Windows 9x being so snappy. Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed. People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.

"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

(Referring to the CEOs of Intel and Microsoft at the time.)

> People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.

They still are. For some reason Win 10 and 11 needs _a looooot_ of time to display the password prompt when the screen is locked and you press a key or move the mouse.

> Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed.

And now, kids, we are looking at the typicalest personal bias.

Things were different those times and you could had a stable platform (for weeks) with a carefully selected components or have a BSOD shitshow running a cheapest soundcard on some chinesium PSU.

Do your personal experience translate to everyone's?

These are VMs running built with JavaScript/WASM allowing you to run an operating system within your browser, all client side.

VMs

https://copy.sh/v86/

https://webvm.io/

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)

https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) (https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs)

Mac OS

https://infinitemac.org/ (https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm...)

https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/