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Free95: Open-source windows-compatible operating system. (github.com)
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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

A text editor is a whole different beast than cloning Windows 95/98/2000. I will note that ReactOS isn't simply building a compatibility layer, their end goal is to allow users to actually run unmodified driver binaries from that era to get hardware working.