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		thitcanh on Feb 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computer... Without going too deep into specs, most phones nowadays are more powerful than 90s workstations and can run software. If that’s not a pocket computer I don’t know what is.

skissane on Feb 20, 2021 [–]

> most phones nowadays are more powerful than 90s workstations and can run software

my iPhone runs Windows 3.0 (emulated in JavaScript even!) faster than I remember it being when I used it on a 386 in the early 1990s

https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.00/

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