Invisible escreveu:
> On 17/05/2011 23:22, nemesis wrote:
>> Fabrice Bellard, head of funky projects like FFmpeg and QEMU, wrote a
>> 486 emulator in javascript and put a simplified Linux to run on it.
> 
> My mind is still blown by this. The author casually chats about it as if 
> emulating something as over-complicated as an IA32 CPU is in some way 
> "easy".
> 
> Apparently the reason it requires a modern browser is that it uses 
> "typed arrays", a newish JS feature that let you manipulate arbitrary 
> binary data in memory (somewhat) efficiently. The Linux distro is 
> apparently BusyBox, together with a toy C99 compiler written by the 
> author of the emulator.
> 
> His other projects include an online scientific calculator with graphing 
> mode...

a REAL MACHO PROGRAMMER, in other words.  I think he's only missing a 
GPU pathtracer like everyone is doing these days. :)

BTW, it should be useful for cloudy-like virtualization, running Linux 
apps directly from the browser... :)

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