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We Did the Impossible, and That Makes Us Mighty

Linux Kernel Running in PC Emulator Written in JavaScript

by James Plafke | 11:34 am, May 17th, 2011

Fabrice Bellard created a PC emulator written in pure JavaScript (using Typed Arrays) that runs Linux. Why? “For fun,” of course, and because Bellard claims “newer Javascript Engines are fast enough to do complicated things.” Bellard suggests a few uses of the emulator could be to benchmark JavaScript engines, use it for client side processing using an x86 library (Bellard suggests for cryptographic purposes), and a more advanced version would allow people to use it for running old DOS PC software, which would allow people to diverge from having to use resource-intensive DOS emulators like DOSBox to play old PC games.

For more detailed information on the emulator, check out the accompanying technical notes. For a little background on Fabrice Bellard, check out this article and find out why this guy is a computing genius.

(via Hacker News, Laurie Voss)

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     Fabrice Bellard has won multiple awards for his game face alone.

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     Fabrice Bellard can bench-press Charles Atlas,

    -in Esperanto

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     When geek women cry out during orgasm,

    they shout Fabrice Bellard’s name.

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     When they needed to verify the integrity of their entire technological infrastructure,

    prior to the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound,

    Seal Team Six called one man:

    Fabrice Bellard.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     Fabrice Bellard has no shame about arm-wrestling Stephen Hawking and winning,

    twice.

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     When Neal Stephenson wanted to know just how bad “The Cryptonomicon” really sucked,

    he asked Fabrice Bellard.

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     When Steve Jobs gets depressed and thinks, “What’s my motivation?”,

    Fabrice Bellard is the only one who can talk him out of the dumps.

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     The only creature on earth a Great White Shark fears is Fabrice Bellard.

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     Deep Blue tried to play Fabrice Bellard in chess once,

    the resulting electrical short was so bad, they had to hard-reboot the power grid for the entire eastern seaboard.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     Fabrice Bellard’s pheromones alone have been linked to multiple unplanned pregnancies,

    four time-zones away.

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     If Fabrice Bellard ever went up for a charity bachelor auction,

    Queen Elizabeth would bankrupt the entire United Kingdom just to make sure she won a single date with him.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     The SR-71 Blackbird spyplane is based on a childhood sketch by Fabrice Bellard that was so impressive,

    its magnificence reverberated backward in time 15 years and inspired Kelly Johnson. 

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     If Fabrice Bellard were to write the ballistic tables for a modern sniper’s rifle,

    a properly-trained four-year-old could kill Vasily Zaitsev from a hilltop,

    on WASP-17,

    with the first shot.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     It is said the Russians themselves measure the size of Fabrice Bellard’s testicles,

    in multiples of Australia.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

     When discussing the magnificent brilliance of Fabrice Bellard’s mind,

    somebody from the NASA R&D crew blurted out to Chris Langan,

    “urm, maybe Supernova SN 2006gy?”,

    and Chris said, “Nope. Brighter than that.”

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