Want to go a step further? Develop your electron apps with NPM. Now they have no idea and to save their ignorance just throw extra layers of abstraction at it until their code only has to interact with some weird Fischer Price idea of what a computer looks like. It used to be they knew how their code interacted with a system. It used to be that programmers actually knew how their hardware worked. It and similar frameworks like CEF are the opposite of the direction we should be going in. This on the other hand, is just DosBox running on what could possibly be the most inefficiently written platform in existence, with internet connectivity just a stone's throw away.Ĭonsidering that dosbox is already multi-platform, AND has a mature x86 emulation core all of its own, **AND** can boot win9x from a disk image natively- What reason does this even have to exist, except as a hobby project that is not meant to see the light of day?Įlectron is the embodiment of every joke about programmers being lazy ever made.
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Learning how to set those legacy deployments up in "Hard to break" configurations is useful, and can be very helpful to the poor souls who have no choice but to work with OSes that ruled the earth in the age of the dinosaurs. (vinyl cutters, CNC laser cutters, waterjet systems, metal detectors, even x-ray systems.) The hardware to keep those old systems running is aging and falling apart (IDE disks especially.) Being able to boot reliably and consistently in a guaranteed clean fashion each and every time with modern replacement parts (SDcard to IDE adapters and pals), makes such experimentation useful to at least a handful of people, making the silliness worthwhile. I have done some very silly things with win9x instances, including getting an instance of it to run entirely out of a syslinux memdisk, with drivespace compression turned on.įor the most part however, such silly things had some sliver of a sensible reason d'etre: Quite a few industrial systems run on 9x, even today.
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