Personally, I think the tech details are a little more interesting: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
"Some of the code is inspired from my x86 dynamic translator present in QEMU" -- Now we know how he had the underlying knowledge to pull this off.
Cheers,
Steven Black
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
In case you miss this news. A brilliant hacker by the name of Fabrice
Bellard has written a simple x86 emulator in Javascript and it runs
Linux:
http://bellard.org/jslinux/
What he is able to pack into this mini Linux distro is amazing and
reminds me of the old QNX demo disks that fit on a 1.44MB floppy. It
even has a networking stack, emacs, vi, ping, wget, etc. and it boots in
about 5 seconds. Which is surprising for javascript to be that fast and
responsive.
Try rm -fr / then press F5 to reinstall. ;-)
Amazingly, the emulator and terminal code is under 100KB!!!
You'll need Firefox 4 or Google Chrome 11 to run this.
--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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