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by Theriac25 4664 days ago
> local bash in the browser is technically not possible for now.

Yes it is, and I've seen it. It was posted to HN a while (like about a year or two) ago, and could run emacs etc. It was done by emulating x86 in Javascript and then running Linux on the emulator.

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You are probably referring to the work of Fabrice Bellard?

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

This is an emulator. Not a real one. This 'looks like a terminal'
Yes I am, thank you for the link!