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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by _pmf_ on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:31AM (#21452644)
My favorite of these kind of stories is https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

They introduced a special mode for the memory (de)allocator that allowed a (disallowed) pattern that SimCity used and that no longer worked with a new change, and used this mode when SimCity was running.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by crazyc on Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:29PM (#21476469)
I think I've run into this bug while working on winevdm. https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/issues/322 I ain't trying to fix it.
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