A clever hack revives Windows 98 on a locked‑down internet appliance, but it's not what you'd call a practical PC.

A retrocomputing project shows Windows 98 running on a Compaq iPAQ IA-2 using clever boot tricks and BIOS workarounds.

Devices that were limited to only run a web browser were relatively common around 2000, as many people wanted to surf the ...

The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s operating systems on modern-day hardware, with relatively few obstacles in ...