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Amazed nobody thought of virtualizing the old hardware.

• ohazi 7y ago
  In 1997?
  • bdcravens 7y ago
    This wasn't in 1997. Article is talking about patching Excel 97 years after it came out, which is why all the build machines were dormant and turned off. Based on when the team moved (follow link in story), this would have been after 2007.
    • regularfry 7y ago
      That predates Hyper-V, and I suspect qemu or virtualbox would have been a challenge. VMWare, though...
      • TomMarius 7y ago
        I used VirtualBox heavily in 2007, worked flawlessly