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Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Developer Nick Lee has successfully installed Windows 95 on his Apple Watch. It works, but it runs very slow. For example, it takes about an hour for the OS to boot up. In a blog post, Lee points out the Apple Watch features specs capable of running the old OS. To get Windows 95 running on the Apple Watch, Lee had to modify Apple's development software in "rather unorthodox ways" that allowed him to turn the OS into a Watch app, which also emulates an environment for the OS to run on, he tells The Verge. To deal with the fact that Apple Watch's screen is always turning itself off when not in use, he set up a motorized tube that constantly turns the Watch's crown, preventing it from falling asleep. In addition, Lee altered the Watch's software to let Windows 95 track a single fingertip, hence the constant swiping in his video.
For example, it takes about an hour for the OS to boot up.
Man, I thought my PC had bad boot times.
Anyone else remember this guy? Ancient UNIX on a nintendo gameboy.
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Despite hating both windows 95 and the apple watch. This is some awesome hackery.
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I guess you missed the bit where he answered the question "What are you, nuts?"
He has previously emulated 68k Mac OS and now turns his attention to a 486 PC.
I would suggest another platform of the period, Risc OS. I'm not sure if the SoC used in the watch supports ARM's virtualization extensions but since there's no arch emulation it should still run at lightning speed compared to an Archimedes of the early 90s.
Lots of people, you know, that likes to hack stuff and try to defy normality... But it's k, you stay in your cozy little world
Everyone needs a hobby
judging from the comments the core audience is long gone and the readers are just strays from Reddit
There was a day when doing something purely for enjoyment, the sake of doing it and just seeing if it could be done were lauded
On today's Slashdot such things are derided and despised
If he given the work to actually write a JIT x86 to ARM translator, but the project is mostly a "i compiled Qemu to X and became news" so, not expecting that anytime soon.
I would have thought that the continuous stream of "Update to Windows 10" nag popups would keep the display alive.
Have gnu, will travel.
Tons of people would still only be what, a couple of dozen people? Supposing that most of them are well fed westerners.
important news to anyone.
I love this. If we get important news, we get a bunch of whiners complaining it's not nerdy enough. Now we have undeniably something which is news for only the mose dyed in the wool nerds and well, you know the rest.
So yes, this is slashdot for heaven's sake. This is precisely the sort of story which should be here (along with others).
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I can't be the only one who thinks that it's funny that he managed to run the most over hyped desktop OS of its time on the most over hyped wearable gadget of its time.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sometimes people do shit just to see if it can be done. Like cramming a full-blown system into a tiny device.
Cramming a "full-blown" system into an Apple Watch would be pretty cool. However, Windows 95 was never a "full-blown" system. It was a system that "fully blowed"; the difference is important. If someone could find a way to delete that piece of shit from the Universe, that would be time well spent.