Boot Linux In Your Browser 393
An anonymous reader writes "Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work)."
Re:The burning question. (Score:5, Interesting)
Like Everest, because it was there.
There was a GIF out several years back, which I haven't been able to find any time recently (and would love a pointer to) of some guy who had something like *19* hardware emulators running on one monitor simultaneously, in 4 or 5 separate stacks.
TRS-80, C-64, T/S-1000; everything you've ever seen an emulator for, he had running on Linux all at the same time; some hosting others.
Fun guy (Score:5, Interesting)
Fabrice also wrote his own version of emacs [bellard.org] in his own realtime C compiler [bellard.org], and he also at one time held the record for calculating pi [bellard.org].
Re:The burning question. (Score:5, Interesting)
Looking at the page code - it looks like he's written a generic x86 emulator in JS, and although booting Linux is undoubtably cool, has anyone tried to patch it to boot MS-DOS (or PC-DOS if you want to avoid any legality issues) ?
Just thinking about all those classic DOS apps that will never see the light of day otherwise.
-Jar