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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by muststopmyths on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:54PM (#21840508)
Yes, the initial 64-bit OS was IA64 and that was the perfect excuse to dump NTVDM, instead of trying to do a W16OW64 or something of that sort. x64 XP and 2003 further solidified that decision because they were "professional" SKUs and Microsoft could dictate that they didn't care about DOS/Win16 for the "new" platform.

It didn't exactly run 16-bit installers. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131031-00/?p=27...

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