A lot of critics still think that the Apple Watch doesn’t solve any real problems, but here’s one it does solve: not being able to run Windows 95 on your wrist.
You can’t do it without exerting a considerable amount of effort, but you can do it. Developer Nick Lee figured out how to make it happen, and he’s posted a YouTube video to prove to the world just how useful a 20-year-old OS is on a 1.7-inch screen:
Practicality was never the point, of course. It was all about examining possibilities. With its 520MHz processor, half a gig of RAM, and 8GB of onboard storage, the Apple Watch looks much better on paper than a lot of computers that actually had Windows 95 installed on them. Lee decided to see whether or not his guess that his Watch could run Win95 was on the money.
It’s certainly not fast — it takes around an hour to boot the emulated OS that’s been shoved inside a WatchKit app. It’s also not usable on a screen this small, but hey, plenty of people find the Apple Watch useless with apps that are meant to run on it, so that may not be a huge negative.
This isn’t the first time Lee shoehorned a vintage OS onto his Apple Watch. His first triumph was getting the ever-so-slightly-newer Mac OS 7.5.5 running on it. His technique was a bit different. To get System 7 on his Watch, Lee ported over the Gryphel Project’s Mini vMac emulator. The result is just as much fun to watch, though:
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