[ubuntu-uk] Android on iPhone

[William Anderson]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>> I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs
>>>
>>> YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech  
>>> Twitter.
>>>
>>> James
>>>     
>> I would take those claims with a pinch of salt.  Surely it is easier to 
>> get an open source OS which already supports the ARM architecture onto a 
>> phone, than a closed source 15 year old OS with no ARM support at all.
>>
>> Sounds (and looks) more like they wrote an iphone app that looks like 
>> windows 95.  Or it could even be a video of windows booting.
>>
>> Dan
>>   
> Looking at the video, it says it's an 80486 CPU with 32MB Ram.  I
> wouldn't be surprised if what they have done is converted something like
> DOSBox to run on the iPhone.

That's exactly what they did.

-n