Re:Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
by g3 on Friday October 18, 2013 @09:07PM
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The project is made with both browser and nodejs support in mind. There are still some issues to resolve, but I will definitely release a node version this year.
Re:Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
by dancecodes on Saturday October 19, 2013 @08:47AM
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its HTML5 and SSE?
Re:Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
by dancecodes on Saturday October 19, 2013 @01:23PM
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Yes its HTML5. Saw header <!doctype html> ...
Not for anything compute-intensive or serious, but for creating very secure very isolated VMs to run web apps or other services in an insecure environment. It could also be a great way to take a LAMP stack app and rapidly deploy it in certain cases.
Again not for high performance, but for... I can think of a few things personally and I'm sure others can too.
(Though honestly performance wouldn't be that bad...)
Then add the ability to go back and forth between client and server, and virtual networking, and you might have a commercial "virtual DOS LAN with nodes in a browser as a service" startup. What for? Supporting legacy DOS crap: point of sale systems, etc. "Run your legacy DOS stuff in your browser with persistence in the cloud." You'd be surprised how much legacy DOS crap is out there.