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NTVDM.EXE on win 7 32 bit (Emulation)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 15.06.2020, 06:53

> > Soooo.... why the heck does anyone ever bother trying to run DOS
> programs
> > via some kludge method while booted to WinCrap ?
>
> Because someone e.g. want to use various commandline tools for dos under
> windows too? And he can do it seamless as in NTVDM instead launching VM or
> rebooting? I think that different users have different use cases so it's
> good when there are more choices.

My point is that more time is spent (unsuccessfully), trying to get this that
and the other thing to work than the total amount of time it would take to
reboot back-n-forth between DOS & WinCrap 100 different times.

Sooo... boot to DOS and be done with all of the kludging-around.

;-)

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