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on Aug 12, 2011
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Run old games in DOSBox in the browser
Because it runs userspace code on x86, instead of running kernel-level code on the GPU?
jbk
on Aug 18, 2011
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Because we know, those days, to sandbox raw x86 code, and not let them access the system and the drivers... However, running shaders directly on the GPU exposes directly graphic drivers, that are not conceived to block unfriendly code.
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