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Old July 20th 17, 08:17 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Steve Hayes[_2_]
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Default Virtual machine -- how does it work

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:02:04 +0100, Brian Gregory
wrote:

For DOS programs when using 64 bit Windows DOSBOX is likely to be the
best solution. Exceptions are possibly a few DOS games that need a lot
of CPU power. It's an emulation rather than a virtual machine.

https://www.dosbox.com/


Yes, I use that for programs written in TurboPascal, which can't cope
with high-speed processors.

But it seems that getting a 32-bit version of Windows would be
preferable for the other programs I use.


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