I’ve considered setting up an old OS VM for various types of serious usage, but as snappy and responsive as they are you can feel a certain reduced crispness co

I’ve considered setting up an old OS VM for various types of serious usage, but as snappy and responsive as they are you can feel a certain reduced crispness compared to real hardware, probably due to latency increases coming from the hardware and software layers involved. I’ll have to try with Windows but it’s apparent when running Mac OS 9 and early releases of OS X in qemu-ppc or SheepShaver — despite the machine the VM is running on being vastly more powerful the old Powebook G3 Pismo in my closet (modded with an SSD of course) feels more snappy. What’d I’d really like to see is reproduction old hardware on modern process nodes with a modern port outlay, screen, etc. Something like that Pismo could easily fit on a card the size of an rPi compute element which would make it easy to fit in just about any laptop chassis imaginable.