True true, not in this century. Yet the project is geared for the older, 1998 era laptops. The thing works pretty well for my oldest 1993 laptop which was designed for Windows 3.1.  It's got Win95 on it still, first release, and still works great with 8 megs ram. It ran Linux too (Debian)... but can't run Bryce.

I think there's a freebie DOS called "FreeDOS" which I hear is fairly compatible.

If you're into Linux, there's a few LCARS skins I've seen, but not sure for which desktop manager. This was some years ago, but from that I remembered it looked extremely good. It may have been for WindowMaker, but not sure, or Enlightenment.

I did make an LCARS skin for Windows back in 1997 for WindowBlinds. It's still available at their web site http://www.wincustomize.com/ Just look for LCARS and if the author is Death, then that's one of the two I did. It was here when I decided that LCARS might look cool on a sci-fi show, but not practical for a windowed environment. It seems to me LCARS is best as a full screen single task GUI. If one must do multi-tasking with it, then just have several full screen windows.