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From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Wed Feb 25 23:15:32 2026

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An x86 CPU emulator written in pure CSS?

<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/enterprising-developer-somehow-writes-an-x86-cpu-emulator-in-plain-css-no-javascript-no-wasm-just-stylesheet-computing>

OK, so it’s Chromium-only for now, since the necessary extensions
aren’t (yet) a standard part of CSS. But it was only a matter of time
...
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From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to comp.misc on Thu Feb 26 13:02:01 2026

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:15:32 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

An x86 CPU emulator written in pure CSS?

<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/enterprising-developer-somehow-writes-an-x86-cpu-emulator-in-plain-css-no-javascript-no-wasm-just-stylesheet-computing>

OK, so it’s Chromium-only for now, since the necessary extensions
aren’t (yet) a standard part of CSS. But it was only a matter of time
...

If only there were web browsers that were still able to work on
an x86 PC.
--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug
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