Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
The os8088 project has added new features to its IBM XT emulator, including a web browser, CP/M 2.2 support, and a custom version of Microsoft Word 1.1a. These updates allow vintage hardware enthusiasts to run modern-style tasks on 4.77 MHz machines.
Why it matters
This demonstrates the extreme limits of retro-computing and software optimization, showcasing how modern functionality can be backported to legacy hardware.
One page per addition that a line on the releases page does not carry: what it is, screenshots of it running, and the video if there is one.
Written for someone who has not read the source. The running list of every change is releases ; every video is the video log .
os8088 now fetches real web pages and lays them out as text and tables, over an Ethernet card or a parallel cable to a DOS machine standing next to it. The network is not the slow part: drawing a window full of text takes longer than fetching the page.
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