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Topic: Can "Windows 1.0" run on a Raspberry Pi? lol

Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #53,362

Just wondering.

bhutan joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #695,931

Whatdows 1.who??

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #695,934

@previous (bhutan)
Durr.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 16 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #695,955

No.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 15 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #695,981

Try it. Post results.

Anonymous C replied with this 10 years ago, 7 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #695,994

@previous (D)
The ARM processor didn't even exist when Windows 1.0 was released. Good luck with that.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,113

It can be run through x86 emulation, either on bare metal/hypervisor (similar to what Amithlon does for classic AmigaOS), or hosted on top of another operating system like Linux. For the latter, DOSBox would probably work, although I'm not an expert at doing this on the Pi.

Anonymous C replied with this 10 years ago, 8 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,227

@previous (E)
The pi does not have enough juice to run a hypervisor at any kind of reasonable speed. It also has no hardware support to do this while most modern processors do, which makes a massive difference.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,262

Of course, DOSBox compiles on ARM. I am willing to bet Windows 1.0 will run faster on the Pi than an of era PC.

@previous (C)
Hypervisor is implemented at the hardware level which I don't think ARM support it.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,322

Can Windows 95 run on a pi?

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 59 seconds later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,323

@previous (G)
Can Crysis run on a Pi?

Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 34 seconds later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #696,324

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Can the Witcher run on a pi?

Anonymous C replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #696,378

@696,262 (F)
> Hypervisor is implemented at the hardware level which I don't think ARM support it.

Yes, that was my point. There are software hypervisors but they are quite slow without hardware acceleration.

> Of course, DOSBox compiles on ARM. I am willing to bet Windows 1.0 will run faster on the Pi than an of era PC.

This is not running Windows 1.0 on a pi. This is running DOSBox on a pi. Same with any other kind of virtualization/emulation, that's just cheating.

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