VIDEO: Windows 95 Running On the iPad

That is amazing actually. The vid took forever to download...

On the other note, this article is not repeating as other past ipads are kewl articles.

Windows 95 took forever to load u mean

hahaha, it costs 500+ for an apple product to run windows 95... hahaha

Nice but what's the use? It's so slow and not touch friendly. iPad is not designed to run on anything other than its own.

I hope they won't try to put WindowsME on iPad... it would kill poor thing

first iPad article that I actually wanted to read!

Aren't we trying to kill these things??

while i generally don't agree with apple's marketing strategy and their draconian restrictions on their products...

hmm... couldn't find any way of putting a positive light on the iPad.

Wow look how slow that is took for it to load I would think it would run faster then that for how much it cost.

And why on earth would you put 95 on anything. That's fail in of itself.

Good. Now get flash to run on it.

Ah, so it can be made useful to people requiring a real OS for productivity.

next time they should run linux... any distro would work perfectly fine on any set of hardware.

Not practical by any means but its a good showcase of technical ability.

Didn't Apple skimp on the memory on the iPad, and only put in 256MB of ram into that thing? Unfortunate. With 1-2 GB of ram, we could have probably saw even cooler stuff done with it.

It totally blows my mind on how many negative people come on here and post negativety about something they know so little about. Go try and ipad and stop reading about it, once you try it your attitude will completely change. Not only that but you will beable to say at least i tryed it before i talked poop about something i know nothing about.

I don't recall the win95 on iPhone article, but this has to be emulated in a virtual machine (and thus, with enough resources, they could probably run any OS). Afterall, Win95 was only for the x86, and yet the iPad runs an ARM processor. Still, as others have said, why?

poorly debuged device drivers

Ugh.. it's an EMULATOR. Probably a poor one at that. How about this.. go try and run the PS2 emulator on your fastest PC. Good luck.

Well now you can have flash on your iPad, up to (not including) Version 8! Performance would obviously be poor though.

That is because you are most likely a fan of their products, I tinkered with this so called "tablet" before launch and IMO it is nothing more than a gigantic itouch. The price is not bad considering what it can do BUT it is far from a "real tablet" there are many things that you simply cannot do on the ipad. I personally think its a flashy piece of hardware as oppossed to a necessity. The worst part is the fact that Apple did not implement a battery removal compartment, so if you battery dies to the point that you cannot retrieve your data you endup losing everything, just like the iphone all over again

I do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ukPdboSGI

I've tried it, it's a big Ipod. Get over it.

that runs poorly :b if its a bad emulator or bad hardware I'm not to jugde.

But this isn't useable :b but its fun!

I'll get an iPad if they ever get XP or OSX on it with real touchscreen controls.

How neat would it be with Win7, but IIRC the poor little ipad doesn't have nearly enough ram to run Win7, probably not enough to run any of the recent versions of MacOS either.

I wonder how long it will take MS to come up with reasonable touchpad usability for Win7.

That is as close to multy tasking that iPad will get and it barely runs. Try to load GL quake and see what happens.

Finally a decent OS on an Apple product!

If it can't handle W95 it will never be able to handle XP or MacOS. I understand it wasn't designed to run Windows 95 but what a piece of garbage. It's just an iTouch with a bigger screen.

Nice setup. Seriously. But, my point is proven. If you can get that to use 2.5 watts and emulate Windows 95.. let me know.