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In addition to a VM or DOSBox, there's Wine on Linux.
– detly
Commented May 11, 2012 at 3:04
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The controller is almost certainly a real-time application. This means that it needs to run for, say, ms every 100 ms or so. In an emulator, this is not guaranteed. If you start up an application (like the browser) in another window, it will take CPU time from the VM or emulator. There are real-time versions of Linux, but the VM would require custom programming to make this work.
– Kevin Vermeer
Commented May 11, 2012 at 13:24
@KevinVermeer true--I've clarified that the real-time performance is one of the reasons not to run a web browser on the host OS.
– rob
Commented May 14, 2012 at 5:22

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