@Josh – OSes are designed to run on particular hardware chipsets. So a setup like this would need to run through an emulator, so essentially the iPad is running two OSes AND an emulator. That’s plenty of reason for lag.
Looks like some kind of emulator. That would explain the lag. The iPads OS is still running, which is what is handling the keyboard and touch interface. The WiFi indicator is also on top of the screen. For all that to work the core OS of the iPad must still be running. The fact is that to make Win95 run on an iPad natively there would be a huge amount of work to rewrite drivers and other system programs. The logical conclusion is an emulator app.
Josh
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 9:46 AMY is it so laggy? Isnt the ipad more powerful than a 1995 pc?
Nath
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM@Josh – OSes are designed to run on particular hardware chipsets. So a setup like this would need to run through an emulator, so essentially the iPad is running two OSes AND an emulator. That’s plenty of reason for lag.
Bloomy
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 10:35 AMLooks like some kind of emulator. That would explain the lag.
The iPads OS is still running, which is what is handling the keyboard and touch interface. The WiFi indicator is also on top of the screen. For all that to work the core OS of the iPad must still be running. The fact is that to make Win95 run on an iPad natively there would be a huge amount of work to rewrite drivers and other system programs. The logical conclusion is an emulator app.
Not sure why you’d want to run Win95 at all?
Bloomy
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 10:39 AMJust did some reading and found an app for jailbroken phones called Bochs which is an x86 emulator.
Its written in C++ so technically could be ported to iPhone/iPad OS. It is open source….so go for it and you could even try Vista!
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
Cheers
timmy
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 3:01 PMImprovements: flash + multitasking
BlueBear
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 4:59 PMFlash is dead, just stupid to support a legacy format. Multitasking is already present, just not what you think multitasking means.