Windows 2000 Running in WebAssembly

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000

by astlouis44 • 5 years ago

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KiranRao0• 5 years ago

There's something uncanny about this. I think it's the lack of clicks caused by a mechanical hard drive that I'm so accustomed to when things are loading in an old OS.

jakedata3• 5 years ago

THANK YOU!

I just kicked Solitaire's ass for the first time in at least 15 years. I couldn't remember the rules but my hands took over and it was like I was killing time at my moribund old job all over again.

abdusco• 5 years ago

It seems to run relatively smoothly, but what's keeping it from running lag-free? Opening up "My Computer" takes 3-4 seconds. Why doesn't it open instantly?

jakedata3• 5 years ago

It is considerably faster than any Windows 2000 installation I ever used.

dvfjsdhgfv• 5 years ago

You must be kidding, right? W2k had a very long startup time by today's standards, but after that the basic utilities felt very snappy, just like most software of the pre-web era:

https://youtu.be/iwmquxVmRj8?t=95

g3• 5 years ago

It's the disk access. In order to open My Computer, Windows reads 6399 disk sectors, which are read using ~150 http requests.

fuzzfactor• 5 years ago

Still got W2k running in the lab on bare metal, now cloned onto a 2014 Win8 PC.

ChrisArchitect• 5 years ago

kinda of mindblowing. Don't really understand how this is working, need a diagram of the build/runtime overview on that Readme

Windows 2000 Running in WebAssembly

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