I wonder what the "effective" clock of the emulated CPU is, maybe we could run Speedsys or Landmark under DOS on it to see how it fares against a real 386. I happen to have a top-end 386 at 40MHz, 16MB FPM, and S3 801 VGA, but it's not quite fast enough to "enjoy" Win95 for me. :)
stavros•1h ago
From the looks of the video, neither is this project, which might mean that performance is comparable to the real 386!
gerdesj•1h ago
Blast! 80386 was removed from Linux only a few years ago. Ironically enough it was the first supported platform because Linus T had one.
mjg59•12m ago
The article says it supports enough 486 and Pentium instructions to boot modern Linux
fouc•23m ago
I was curious what the "cheapest" ready-to-use ESP32-S3 setup would be, it seems like there are dev boards with built-in displays ranging from 3.5" to 5", WiFI/BT/USB-C for $20-$30 on ebay.
I guess those of you doing IoT / home assistant stuff would likely know about these. Just found out about ESPHome[0]
accrual•1h ago
I wonder what the "effective" clock of the emulated CPU is, maybe we could run Speedsys or Landmark under DOS on it to see how it fares against a real 386. I happen to have a top-end 386 at 40MHz, 16MB FPM, and S3 801 VGA, but it's not quite fast enough to "enjoy" Win95 for me. :)
stavros•1h ago