VIDEO: Windows 95 Running On the iPad

You might remember our writing about Windows 95 running on the iPhone in July of last year. The iSoft team achieved this using the Bochs emulator and an original Windows 95 image.

Well it would seem the folks at iSoft have done it again. After receiving an email from someone named Pavel Egorkin, we did a little research and it turns out Pavel is part of the iSoft dev team. Pavel sent us the following video of Windows 95 running on an iPad.

Mr. Egorkin didn't provide us with any addition information, so we have no way of knowing if this was done using the same Bochs emulator but we'll update once he gets back to us.

Windows 95 on the iPad

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N.Broekhuijsen , April 10, 2010 1:39 AM

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

Aren't we trying to kill these things??
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insider3 , April 10, 2010 1:49 AM

Good. Now get flash to run on it.
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cbrei10213 , April 10, 2010 1:36 AM

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

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HansVonOhain , April 10, 2010 1:31 AM

That is amazing actually. The vid took forever to download...
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HansVonOhain , April 10, 2010 1:32 AM

On the other note, this article is not repeating as other past ipads are kewl articles.
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lvlouro , April 10, 2010 1:33 AM

Windows 95 took forever to load u mean
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cbrei10213 , April 10, 2010 1:36 AM

hahaha, it costs 500+ for an apple product to run windows 95... hahaha
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sliem , April 10, 2010 1:37 AM

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.
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deividast , April 10, 2010 1:38 AM

I hope they won't try to put WindowsME on iPad... it would kill poor thing
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N.Broekhuijsen , April 10, 2010 1:38 AM

first iPad article that I actually wanted to read!
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N.Broekhuijsen , April 10, 2010 1:39 AM

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

Aren't we trying to kill these things??
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Lessqqmorepewpew , April 10, 2010 1:39 AM

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.
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saaiello , April 10, 2010 1:43 AM

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.
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kingnoobe , April 10, 2010 1:46 AM

And why on earth would you put 95 on anything. That's fail in of itself.
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insider3 , April 10, 2010 1:49 AM

Good. Now get flash to run on it.
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Honis , April 10, 2010 1:50 AM

Ah, so it can be made useful to people requiring a real OS for productivity.
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micr0be , April 10, 2010 1:52 AM

next time they should run linux... any distro would work perfectly fine on any set of hardware.
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eddieroolz , April 10, 2010 2:03 AM

Not practical by any means but its a good showcase of technical ability.
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godwhomismike , April 10, 2010 2:04 AM

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.
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hakesterman , April 10, 2010 2:06 AM

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.
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hellwig , April 10, 2010 2:24 AM

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?
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posteris , April 10, 2010 2:28 AM

poorly debuged device drivers
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mlopinto2k1 , April 10, 2010 2:46 AM

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.

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