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    1 day ago

    I’m clueless as to why one would want either. Running old hardware peripherals?

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      1 day ago

      Some win95 / win98 software doesn’t work all that well on Windows 10/11. It’s mostly stuff that was targeted for the early releases of Windows and cannot be run in DOS (or the DOS version is more primitive than the Window aversion).

      One example:

      https://archive.org/details/biestystowaway

      It’s mostly games and random educational releases like the one above.

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        7 hours ago

        Cool, thanks for explaining! I take it they don’t work that well on WINE either?