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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.
Anyone else remember this guy? Ancient UNIX on a nintendo gameboy.
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For example, it takes about an hour for the OS to boot up.
Man, I thought my PC had bad boot times.
That sounds about normal to me. Time to defrag the hard disk and do a fresh reinstall of Windows.
Despite hating both windows 95 and the apple watch. This is some awesome hackery.
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An hour to boot up Windows? What's the boot time if you disable Norton?
I would have thought that the continuous stream of "Update to Windows 10" nag popups would keep the display alive.
Have gnu, will travel.