--- title: "Comment by Liam Guy Hiram Proven on \"The 90s Developer Starter Pack\" | Hashnode" description: "This is an odd article. I don't understand a lot of it. Firstly, you say that you are running an emulator: I recently found a 386 emulator called 86Box OK." url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41/comment/64abefcd395b682e51ab942c" --- [Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41) Comment [The 90s Developer Starter Pack](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41) [Liam Guy Hiram Proven](https://hashnode.com/@lproven) I write about computers for a living. [Jul 10, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41/comment/64abefcd395b682e51ab942c) This is an odd article. I don't understand a lot of it. Firstly, you say that you are running an emulator: > I recently found a 386 emulator called 86Box OK. Then there are many paragraphs about hardware. > I'll go with AMD Am486DX4 So which is it? All the stuff about sockets, slots and so on -- much of it wrong, by the way -- is 100% fiction. Why bother? > This is how it originally looked like _What_ it looks _like_, _or_ _how_ it looks. Not both. It's an emulator. It doesn't look like this at all. Why? > Without further ADO "ado" is a word. No caps. > PIC slots PCI slots. PIC is something different. But none of this is true. There is no hardware. Why this flight of fancy? It's not only lies, it's totally irrelevant. > two EDO-RAM over there Two _slots_. EDO RAM is a type of memory. One that only works on Pentiums with an Intel Triton chipset, by the way. > To install Windows 95, you'd need Microsoft DOS 6.22. Not true. You can boot from floppy. The CD includes an image of a floppy but you can download one anyway. > Windows 95 is the first full 32-bit Windows that's built by Microsoft. No it isn't. 1. It's not fully 32-bit. It's a hybrid OS with 16-bit parts. 2. It's not the first. 3. The first full 32-bit OS was NT 3.1, which was 2 years earlier. > brings 32-bit programming to consumer Do consumers want programming? Do they need it? (BTW, to _the_ consumer, or to consumers.) Your bio says: > I'm an old programmer Is that fiction, too? You don't seem to really know this stuff to me. If you are using an emulator, drop all the fictional BS about hardware. All those words and pics: not a single line is true. Why waste our time? Tell us the truth. Tell us about the emulator. Or, use real hardware, and write about that. As it is, 75% of this post is pure fantasy and what's left gets critical facts wrong. [John Findorff](https://hashnode.com/@jmfindorff) [Jul 29, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41/comment/64abefcd395b682e51ab942c#reply-64c511aacbf7a460bdc59798) 86box is a pc emulator that emulates the hardware of a pc, such as cpus up to a Pentium II (be warned that you need a powerful cpu to be able to get performance using a P2, so I'd suggest using closer to a pentium or older). Essentially you choose the parts of the computer you want to emulate when you create a new instance, so if you wish to recreate a computer you had in the 90s, it's possible that you can since 86box provides roms for many different computer parts, like motherboards, cpus, gpus and sound cards. Sure, this post doesn't go into depth about the emulator itself, but that doesn't mean they have to. You could've spent 5 minutes to look up the emulator itself and realize what they're talking about [Liam Guy Hiram Proven](https://hashnode.com/@lproven) I write about computers for a living. [Aug 1, 2023](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-90s-developer-starter-pack/63668ac267ae3f7da96dcc41/comment/64abefcd395b682e51ab942c#reply-64c9445ae11157a5141267c4) [John Findorff](https://hashnode.com/@jmfindorff) I don't think you understood what I wrote. I know all I need to know about the emulator. That is irrelevant. The point is that all the pics of hardware are fake: _there is no hardware_. I spent more than 5min reading about kit that the writer does not in fact use at any point. So why is it there?