If you buy a phone and fix it for 10 years, Apple doesn't make any money off of you for 10 years.

I don't have the technical knowledge required to go about doing such a thing, however I also am interested in legacy systems. I actually collect older systems, mostly laptops from the 90's. I have a pretty good collection of DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows 9x systems. I was also kicking around the idea of trying to implement a 386 in an FPGA, but last time I researched it it looks like the 386 is too complex to be implemented in a usable way. About the best you could do would be to implement the chipset with an FPGA to support an actual 386 chip.I wish there were more people interested in legacy systems though, it sucks watching everything I grew up learning on get lost to time and forgotten.

"How far it has come?!" Well seeing as when I started following it it was only a text mode command prompt and today it's a graphic system that can use Windows hardware drivers and actually run a lot of programs that were made for Windows XP, yeah, I would say it's come far and would also say they are making good progress on their goal. It initially started out to clone Windows NT but if you've even skimmed any of the material there you'd know that they're chasing a moving goal. As times change and technology advances, their goals advance with them. Yes, they do use a lot of WINE code, but what's wrong with that? It works and it saves them a shit ton of work having to implement it all themselves, plus when they do make changes to WINE they send the changes back upstream to the WINE project which helps to advance it as well. I fail to see where the real failure is here.

I've been following this project since it was nothing more than a text mode command prompt, it's amazing how far it's come since then.

As I remember, merely inserting the diskette would do absolutely nothing. You had to either run a program from the diskette, or forget to take it out of the drive when you (re)booted the machine in order to actually "catch" anything from it. Autorun didn't come along until Windows 95.

Nobody's got any good links for Assembly programming?? I figured I'd see at least one...