salarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comsalarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
minus-square555@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoThey sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.
minus-squareZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI’m sure you’re the first to think of this! You’ll be rich!
minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoTell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoThat will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoalso 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.
They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.
I’m sure you’re the first to think of this! You’ll be rich!
Let me Google that for you.
Tell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.
That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.
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.