Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95
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Seems like they missed a trick… Pocket Pentium. :)

@555@lemmy.world
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While cute, it would be false advertising for a 386.

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If the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.

@555@lemmy.world
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They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.

@deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.

@555@lemmy.world
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I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.

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If someone wanted emulation, wouldn’t they have bought one of the many other tiny laptops that have been on the market for years?

I think the point of this is to run natively on vintage hardware.

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