05-23-2004, 06:00 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Running Windows 95/98 On A Pocket PC
Believe it or not, it is theoretically possible. Due to a successful port of the Bochs x86 emulator, a few enterprising Pocket PC users managed to get Windows 98 running inside a Bochs session on their Pocket PC.
The full details are in a post on PocketGamer (and you can get more screenshots from the original thread on PDAi, and more discussion on PocketMatrix). Kudos to the guys who figured this out, but before you think this is a practical application, be forewarned: Bochs is very slow. Slow even on a desktop PC, and bound to be quite a bit slower on a Pocket PC. Emulating a CISC processor (i.e., the x86/IA-32 instruction set) via a small RISC processor (i.e., the ARM instruction set) is a very heavyweight task. While there is some interest in speeding it up, the Computer Scientist in me hints that we're not going to see this implemented practically anytime soon. Still, it's eye-opening as to how much processing power Pocket PCs have nowadays. 8)
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05-23-2004, 06:24 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2005
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let me know when all 4 main windows solutions come in one package! (like now would be: XP Pro, Tablet Ed, Media Centre Ed, and WM2003se)
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Really cool though, just wish it was meant to be...
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05-23-2004, 06:29 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2003
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now that is cool! def a killer on the geek scale for me!
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05-23-2004, 06:33 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: May 2004
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While the Bochs x86 emulator is really cool 8) - 95/98 is not  . But if there is anything that 95/98 is good for (or to be used for) I guess it would be to hack away with them and to get them to running in an emulator 8O .
Jeff- :wink:
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05-23-2004, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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That would be awesome, dual boot with tablet PC, where you default to WM, but selecting a shutdown and boot to tablet option would be cool, where when you shutdown tablet, WM just thinks it was soft reset and resumes at the next poer on.
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05-23-2004, 07:37 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Impressive! Definitely one for the geeks to rejoice. But I am not sure how useful it would be otherwise.
On a similar note, looks like the DOS console is already available at
http://www.symbolictools.de/public/p...sole/index.htm
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05-23-2004, 08:10 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,055
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No, not bochs! Hehehehe... I just finished my undergraduate operating systems class (I'm a CS major as well).... I think I spent about 30 hours a week last semester working on that operating system we had to build from scratch...
Seeing the word "bochs" on this web site scared me at first. I thought my OS Professor was out to haunt me or something... 8O
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05-23-2004, 09:13 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 276
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*checks calendar* Nope, not 1st of April today, is it? :lol:
OK, nice, now I don't have to buy a laptop: I can use the x86 emulator for Pocket PC instead... :mrgreen:
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05-23-2004, 10:05 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 734
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Some people should really seek professional help. You could, in theory, run this on your PC, then run a Palm emulator on the emulated windows - though you definitely need to rethink your life if you were to attempt such. :mrgreen:
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05-23-2004, 12:30 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Originally Posted by bjornkeizers
Some people should really seek professional help. You could, in theory, run this on your PC, then run a Palm emulator on the emulated windows - though you definitely need to rethink your life if you were to attempt such. :mrgreen:
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Or better yet (worse?) run x86 emulator on a Pocket PC, then the Pocket PC emulator on Win 95/98 (and then x86 on the emulated PPC, etc.  ).
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