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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by DrGiltspur@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.

That laptop doesn't look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that's maybe why I'm being a bit negative here. It's cool and a nice idea, though...

(And we already have ARM-based retro machines, FPGA clones if popular processors available. So there is no need for them to do the exact same thing.)