You can run Windows XP on a smart watch with Android Wear

YouTube user Dave Bennett (Dave Bennet) did a curious but useless from a practical point of view of the exercise - he was able to run on their smart watches LG desktop version of Windows XP and even work in it with the console. How it looks can be seen in the video.

Technically, Dave’s solution looks like this. To run Windows XP on Android Wear, he used a special Bochs emulator (it allows you to run Windows 95-98 as well). The operating system itself had to be severely trimmed from more than 1.5 GB to about 100 MB, removing the entire GUI in a special image constructor and leaving only the command line tool.

This had to be done for two reasons. On the one hand, the launch of a full-fledged desktop operating system on smart watches would hardly end successfully. On the other hand, the transfer of all the resources of the full version of Windows XP from the smartphone to the watch via Bluetooth would have lasted more than 12 hours - apparently, Dave was in a hurry to record the video. The fact that his experiment has no practical value, he willingly acknowledges himself.

The watch itself, which the young man experimented with, has a 1.65 ”screen (280 × 280 pixels), 512 MB DDR3 RAM and a Snapdragon 400 processor.

In a series of such experiments, Dave Bennet is not the first. At the end of 2014, YouTube user Corbin Davenport published his video where he managed to launch full-fledged Windows 95 on a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch. True, not a single application wanted to run, citing a lack of RAM. This did not stop collecting 2 million views of this video:



No one can be surprised at the launch of Windows on smartphones, but the launch of desktop operating systems on miniature smart watches still attracts attention.