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Windows compatibility is insane! (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Yes, you can start almost all 32 bit software in Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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...