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Re:Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B by scarface74 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:43PM (#31521980)
I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.
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Re:Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B by axiolite on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:56PM (#31525619)
> I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.

That's called emulation. That's not what VMWare does.

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Re:Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B by scarface74 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:22PM (#31525712)
From the parent poster

> I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing - it seemed that revolutionary, running an OS inside an OS on a desktop

SoftPC was in fact “running an OS inside an OS on the desktop “

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