Thursday, December 12, 2013

Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation

http://m.slashdot.org/story/195515

Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation

from the time-machine-always-comes-last dept.
First time accepted submitter LibbyMC writesGoogle's approach to bringing older C software to the browser is demonstrated in bringing the '80s-era AmigaOS to Chrome. 'The Native Client technology runs software written to run on a particular processor at close to the speeds that native software runs. The approach gives software more direct access to a computer's hardware , but it also adds security restrictions to prevent people from downloading malware from the Web that would take advantage of that power.'Chrome users can go straight to the demo.

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