> DOS programs were decoding MP3 in realtime in the mid-90's, on 90's hardware, just at lower bitrates. Back "in the day" I built an AMD 5x86 machine with 4mb

> DOS programs were decoding MP3 in realtime in the mid-90's, on 90's hardware, just at lower bitrates. Back "in the day" I built an AMD 5x86 machine with 4mb that ran DOS and could -just barely- decode 128K MP3s using some DOS-based MP3 player I found. On top of that, I ran a custom menu system (wrote it using TurboC iirc) that drove a 16x2 LCD via the parallel port. I had this idea that I would set it up as a car pc, but never actually did.