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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by kijiki on Sunday June 05, 2016 @07:44PM (#11843765)
If your PC is faster than a certain speed Win95 won't boot.

This bit us at VMware, since it was common to want to run old Win95-only software in a VM on fast machines. We ended up having the VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) patch up the bug when it did binary translation.

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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by justin66 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @09:36PM (#11844131)
> If your PC is faster than a certain speed Win95 won't boot.

That's interesting. What's the threshold there?

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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by gattilorenz on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:23AM (#11845682)
300Mhz. But you can work around that...

http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2011/01/10/windo...

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