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Windows compatibility is insane! (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. It's 16bit app support for win3.1/95 stuff that ran in the DOS layer that's depreciated, but even then they'll sometimes run.

[โ€“] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We still have some ridiculous genetics algorithm running inside dosbox, of all things, in an App-V virtual environment deployed across a farm of hundreds of Citrix servers running inside various VMware hosts and published up to some geneticist freaks at the hospital I look after.

It's absolutely insane...