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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 284 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Hello Guys,
Has somebody already made it possible with the Jornada ? maybe impossible idea . with the smallest and fastest microsoft windows that may solve lot of driver problems for you, no ?
Cheers !
Edited by patrick295767 2008-01-09 8:37 PM
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 153 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Unfortunately I believe it's impossible  . |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 360 |
Location: | Vancouver, BC | Status: | |
| No no no no and no.
The Jornada is NOT a PC. It uses a completely different CPU which talks to the rest of the machine in a different way, and it doesn't even have things like a BIOS. Windows 95 is right out of the question. Though windows 3.1 can be run very very slowly in a DOS emulator, I think. But why would you want to? |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 304 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| *cough* *cough*
http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/editorial/bochs-2-1-1/
Is it possible? With a lot of effort, and the instructions/software in the CESD: yes. Would you *want* to? Probably not... |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| Not even Windows 3.1 can be run in a DOS emulator AFAIK - though Windows 3.0 can (in theory at least ).  |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,826 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| I've pondered the geek-quality of running MS Word 2.0 on the J (PocketDOS > Windows 3.0 > Word 2.0 ), but while it's a good app, it wouldn't exactly be instant on. TM or PocketWord (a program I strangely use more and more ) is faster by far.
Re: Windows 95. I remember reading that Chris got Windows 98 to actually start up on a J-720, took 18 hours or so to boot. I'm sure Windows 95 could cut that time in HALF 
Edit: Wait, maybe it was Win95, and the INSTALLATION took close to 18 hours. Whatever, it was an experiment more than a solution, I think
Jake Edited by Jake 2008-01-10 7:05 AM
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 224 |
Location: | Poland | Status: | |
| 18 hours to install Win98... Win95 boots in about 5 minutes but it isn't usable - too slow to run notepad  (I have Win95OSR2 on 386SX-16 and 4mm of ram and it's much faster.. ) |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,826 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| >> Win95OSR2 on 386SX-16 and 4mm of ram << Just curious: how long does that setup take to get you to the actual desktop?
Jake |
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 224 |
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| Setup took about 7 hours to 70% when orginal hdd fails... I instaled Win95 by copying setup files onto harddrive, launch setup on much modern PC and moved hdd to this PC after first reboot (Win95 OSR2 works on 4mb of ram but OSR2 setup hangs on it...) |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,826 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| Thanks for the retro tip. In the future, some 386 wag will find this thread and say, Ah.
Jake |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,667 |
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| LOL  |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 1 |
Location: | France | Status: | |
| Hello.
I can't remember why I wen't to an expo about farming machinery...that I saw the master of ceremonies using a Jornada 720 to present the slides. After each participant presenting he quickly opened and switched documents that I perfectly saw the Windows 3.1 environment.
Not sure why or how. That is the only thing I remember from that expo.
Edited by RegularCE 2022-12-12 11:09 PM
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 702 |
Location: | Europe | Status: | |
| I'm pretty sure it must've been something similar looking, it's very very unlikely that someone would go out of their way to emulate 3.1 on CE on the Jornada |
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Subscribers Factorite (Elite) | It is possible to run Win95 on a Jornada but far too slow, I was doing a little digging and found this....
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldHandhelds/comments/xbslg2/run_windows_95...
The link still works and 'it works out of the box' I installed in on my HTC advantage (624Mhz 128Mb Ram ) it loads in about 5 mins but is painfully slow to use :- (
Might try in on my J720 and report back.... |
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Subscribers Factorite (Elite) | OK so this method won't work on the Jornada (thought that might be the case as its designed for PPC) Redgear just caused the device to crash when opening the folder and I tried it with the PPC DLL files but that didn't work either |
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