Chinese Programmer Sticks Windows 95 On An iPhone 6 Plus


Today in “putting stuff onto things on which they don’t
belong,” we present a user, xyq058775, and his exciting
admission that he installed Windows 95 on a brand new
iPhone. He used a tool called iDos, an open source
DOSBox-like app to install the OS. He found that most of it
worked fine but he was unable to upgrade to Windows XP. And
we can assume he was also able to play Doom.

There’s is very little new about this whole process – people
have been putting emulators on things since the original VAX
machines – but it’s cool to see resurrected software run so
readily on new hardware. While I can’t imagine a real world
use case for this (maybe you really need to run a copy of
Mavis Beacon?) it’s a great theoretical exercise. Who knows,
maybe someone can run POSDT next.