• MadMaurice
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    2 years ago

    Do current Windows versions even start anything that was compiled for pre-Vista? I thought they don’t?

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      2 years ago

      Yes. It’s 16bit app support for win3.1/95 stuff that ran in the DOS layer that’s depreciated, but even then they’ll sometimes run.

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        2 years ago

        We still have some ridiculous genetics algorithm running inside dosbox, of all things, in an App-V virtual environment deployed across a farm of hundreds of Citrix servers running inside various VMware hosts and published up to some geneticist freaks at the hospital I look after.

        It’s absolutely insane…