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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

[–] 555_1@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 4 months ago

Tell me you've never tried it without telling me you've never tried it.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure you're the first to think of this! You'll be rich!

[–] 555_1@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Let me Google that for you.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

also most of those USB adapters likely won't support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.