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Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95 - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems like they missed a trick... Pocket Pentium. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While cute, it would be false advertising for a 386.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Faster isn't always better -- there's software from the era that relied on hardware limitations to throttle itself -- but I'd think that emulators probably have pretty good support for such throttling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If someone wanted emulation, wouldn’t they have bought one of the many other tiny laptops that have been on the market for years?

I think the point of this is to run natively on vintage hardware.