[TriLUG] PC emulator in javascript booting linux

[Michael Wright]

It was actually written by Fabrice Bellard (TCC, QEMU, FFMPEG),  so not
quite a grad student project. Does there have to be a [business] need for
the project? What happened to doing things because you found it interesting?

Michael Wright

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com>wrote:

> On 6/1/2011 1:04 PM, Brian Henning wrote:
> > That's all beside the point of my question, anyway.  What's the practical
> > use of a JavaScript-based hardware emulator today, other than the
> > I-built-it-because-I-could factor?
>
> Because now you can write a Firefox plugin to run XP in an emulator inside
> your web page.
>
> Dunno, that's my best guess, anyway.  Does seem kinda silly.  Maybe a
> grad student project?
>
>
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