Run 14 Vintage Oses (windows 1.01→xp, Reactos, Haiku) in the Browser
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(Built on v86. Credit to the project.)
Currently the closest thing is qemu-wasm, but my experiments (chrome only) show that it's still too slow: https://zb3.me/qemu-wasm-test/jspi-noffi/
v86 has a different model of "jitting" the code, but it only supports x86 and each new architecture would require significant rewrites.
And great work ;)
What exactly does yours do that http://copy.sh/v86 doesn't?