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Re:Windows 1.0 emulator by FreeFull on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @07:40AM (#9295549)
There are tricky ways to get vm86 working with 64-bit operating systems, although it's not as nice as with 32-bit.

Edit: An edit went on the wrong comment somehow. Ignore what it said.

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Re:Windows 1.0 emulator by pdw on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:11AM (#9295632)
And indeed, Wine can run 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux. You could say that at this point Linux is more Windows-compatible than Windows itself :)
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