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Huh? I doubt it has an x86 CPU in there not to mention floppy disk or CDROM drives to read from the media. > iOS port of the Bochs x86 emulator Oh. Boo.

dang 10y ago
We've asked you before to stop posting snarky dismissals of other people's work to HN. Such comments go against both the guidelines and spirit of this site. You clearly have a lot of knowledge to share, which is great, but we need you to actually share it—by teaching the reader something new—and to eliminate the bits that just put others down.
- teddyh 10y ago
  I have no idea what J_Darnley has written previously, but in this case you are being unfair. J_Darnley’s “snarky dismissal” may in this case be terse, but it is entirely deserved here – they didn’t “install Windows 95”, they ran it in an emulator. A standard, commonly used, x86 processor and PC platform emulator. The title is misleading. From the article, it seems that to even get the emulator running on the Apple Watch was a serious problem, and I can see that. And if the article title would have reflected this, like “I got a PC emulator running on my Apple Watch and ran Windows 95 in it”, then I would have had no problem with it. As it is, it’s misleading clickbait.
  - shimon 10y ago
    How else could he have gotten Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch? Recompile Windows? Swap out a processor? The fact remains that this article describes something novel and technically difficult. If you have a better suggestion of how a Real Hacker would run Windows 95 on a watch, please tell us about it. That would be interesting.
    - teddyh 10y ago
      It is the very fact that it is, at first glance, impossible which makes the headline interesting. The fact that it is impossible (and the article describes something similar but different) does not excuse the headline from the charge of inaccuracy and clickbait. The article does describe something novel, interesting and difficult. But not what was promised by the headline.
      - chris_wot 10y ago
        I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. He installed Windows 95 on the x86 emulator Bochs on a wristwatch running iOS! What is not amazing about that? So what if it's emulated? It definitely installed and ran - on his wrist!!! I'm not normally impressed, but this is amazing!
  - hughw 10y ago
    It's a beautiful hack, not clickbait. Your expectations for it remind me of that Far Side cartoon where the dog is pushing a lawn mower randomly around the lawn, and his owner says, "You call that mowin' the lawn? Bad dog!"
  - icebraining 10y ago
    they didn’t “install Windows 95”, they ran it in an emulator. Lots of apps in the early days of x86 Mac OSX depended on Rosetta since they were built for PPC, did that mean they weren't installed? What about Teamviewer for Linux, which depends on Wine (a Win32 API emulator)?
    - striking 10y ago
      Teamviewer for Linux is quite the hack indeed. I honestly couldn't believe it worked.

dang 10y ago

We've asked you before to stop posting snarky dismissals of other people's work to HN. Such comments go against both the guidelines and spirit of this site. You clearly have a lot of knowledge to share, which is great, but we need you to actually share it—by teaching the reader something new—and to eliminate the bits that just put others down.

teddyh 10y ago
I have no idea what J_Darnley has written previously, but in this case you are being unfair. J_Darnley’s “snarky dismissal” may in this case be terse, but it is entirely deserved here – they didn’t “install Windows 95”, they ran it in an emulator. A standard, commonly used, x86 processor and PC platform emulator. The title is misleading. From the article, it seems that to even get the emulator running on the Apple Watch was a serious problem, and I can see that. And if the article title would have reflected this, like “I got a PC emulator running on my Apple Watch and ran Windows 95 in it”, then I would have had no problem with it. As it is, it’s misleading clickbait.
- shimon 10y ago
  How else could he have gotten Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch? Recompile Windows? Swap out a processor? The fact remains that this article describes something novel and technically difficult. If you have a better suggestion of how a Real Hacker would run Windows 95 on a watch, please tell us about it. That would be interesting.
  - teddyh 10y ago
    It is the very fact that it is, at first glance, impossible which makes the headline interesting. The fact that it is impossible (and the article describes something similar but different) does not excuse the headline from the charge of inaccuracy and clickbait. The article does describe something novel, interesting and difficult. But not what was promised by the headline.
    - chris_wot 10y ago
      I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. He installed Windows 95 on the x86 emulator Bochs on a wristwatch running iOS! What is not amazing about that? So what if it's emulated? It definitely installed and ran - on his wrist!!! I'm not normally impressed, but this is amazing!
- hughw 10y ago
  It's a beautiful hack, not clickbait. Your expectations for it remind me of that Far Side cartoon where the dog is pushing a lawn mower randomly around the lawn, and his owner says, "You call that mowin' the lawn? Bad dog!"
- icebraining 10y ago
  they didn’t “install Windows 95”, they ran it in an emulator. Lots of apps in the early days of x86 Mac OSX depended on Rosetta since they were built for PPC, did that mean they weren't installed? What about Teamviewer for Linux, which depends on Wine (a Win32 API emulator)?
  - striking 10y ago
    Teamviewer for Linux is quite the hack indeed. I honestly couldn't believe it worked.