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Help is there a such thing as an i386 emulator for Android?

Out of the spirit of nostalgia, I've been digging through my old CD case and found my Windows 95 disc.
As useless as that probably sounds, the benefit of running fat32 is not only can I use real time DOS, but it'll run all of those old DOS programs and legacy games etc that won't run on windows NT.
Naturally, if I wanted to run it that bad I could just use virtual box on my laptop, but my question is; can I run it on my phone?

I'm talking like a virtual machine app that emulates a legacy i386 PC, with an IBM bios that could boot operating system like DOS or win 9x. Is that possible? I doubt it would have much processor resources after recompiling from ARM, but if it would give me as much as a 486, I would be happy.
Even if it could only emulate 16 bit/ 80286, I could work with that as the primary thing I'll be doing is booting into MS DOS. I'd rather have 32 bit system because among the old operating systems I'll be using; OS/2 Warp is on the top of my list :)
 
Yes. That's basically what I want if it will run the programs and have all DOS commands.
I'd like to be able to copy a full version of OS/2 or Windows and boot into it too
 
Could also have a look at Qemu or Bochs for Android. Emulates a 386 PC. Apparently that can open and boot Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, etc. ISOs.
 
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Yes it can be done...Windows 98 running on my Oppo Find 7. :D

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