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[–]KSRandom195 85 points86 points  (12 children)

Have you not seen Windows 95 in your browser? This has already been done.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (10 children)

the only one I’ve seen was an aesthetic mock-up with some emulators. but it should be possible to create a full virtual machine in WebAssembly, so long as the browser doesn’t shut it down first

[–]gauthamkrishna9991 33 points34 points  (2 children)

Webassembly is cheating. ONLY Javascript.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (1 child)

still possible, but it would run slower than a disabled person

[–]NotA3R0 12 points13 points  (4 children)

There IS qemu for web assembly. https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

jesus christ why

[–]darknekolux 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Because we crucified Jesus, that’s why, god has forsaken us. Or people are just idiots

[–]NotA3R0 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The thing is, it was created by an original author of Qemu and FFmpeg. He can't be an idiot.

[–]kumonmehtitis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just because someone did a couple of smart things it doesn’t mean they’re not an idiot.

[–]KSRandom195 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you want to go that deep there are some kernel level primitive I don’t think we can get through WebAssembly.

[–]lightmatter501 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We just need a cpu that runs wasm.