Nexus One now runs Windows 3.11

[btilly]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/nexus-one-runs-windows-3-11-possibly-the-saddest-thing-weve-se/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29

[elblanco]

Actually, this is dosbox running Windows 3.11, and the Android port of dosbox.

http://www.dosbox.com/

[dandrews]

My N900 runs MVS 21.8 with the help of the s390 Hercules emulator. It's amusing to watch it IPL and run TSO sessions with about the same response time as a circa-1980 IBM mainframe. It's a data center in a handheld, 30 years out of time.

What's it good for? Spending a nostalgic evening, killing a beer or two... and that's about it. I imagine the same thing goes for that Windows 3.11 hack.

[nkassis]

That's a good example of having too much time but quite funny to watch.

In other news, windows 3.11 still looks better than Windows mobile ;p

[billybob → nkassis]

Maybe Microsoft can leapfrog this, though. I hear Windows Mobile 7 will be as good as Windows 98. ;)

[jrp]

This is awesome cool! After seeing the website made to look like 3.1 on here a while ago, I have been looking for some old install media to give it a spin.

[trezor → jrp]

If you have a Technet plus account you can still download both MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups just for kicks.

I still have no idea what to use them for, but I just had to download them out of nostalgia. At less than 5MB it was the least I could do :)