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DOSBox can't run various firmware update and low-level hardware diagnostics tools that are still used in real life under DOS running on bare metal. And Windows

by qb45 9y ago

DOSBox can't run various firmware update and low-level hardware diagnostics tools that are still used in real life under DOS running on bare metal. And Windows XP might be out of support but it still is used in some places too. And even if it wasn't, somebody could still think of using it as a test case to increase coverage. It would be extremely lame if some bug which crashes newer Windows in 0.1% of cases turned out to be trivially detectable in XP.

nikanj 9y ago
As we have learned today, the UK NHS is very much still on XP.
- floatboth 9y ago
  They probably aren't gonna buy Ryzens. IIRC Ryzen and Kaby Lake were both announced with "only Windows 10 is going to be officially supported"…
  - qb45 9y ago
    Yes, they will have to buy Intel to avoid this bug.
  - Dylan16807 9y ago
    Ah but XP isn't supported on anything, and the update-blocking code doesn't affect you when there are no updates. So no reason not to use Ryzen.
awordnot 9y ago
But this bug literally couldn't crash any modern OS as the feature is not available in 64-bit mode.