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Solvable by VMs and the right kind of USB-to-<thing> connectors? If you need any kind of specific hardware other than a 3.5" floppy drive, an ordinary VM proba
by brudgers 1y ago
Solvable by VMs and the right kind of USB-to-<thing> connectors?
If you need any kind of specific hardware other than a 3.5" floppy drive, an ordinary VM probably won't work easily, if it can be gotten to work at all.
Even with something as simple and ubiquitous as a parallel port, buying an old computer is probably going to be simpler and more reliable.
With Windows, it's not as simple as emulating an S100 bus. Windows 95 had about fifteen million lines of code. That's before you add in whatever kludged, cowboyed, and cobbled together code your hardware and application actually need.
Basically, every old windows hardware driver is a corner case and everything had a hardware driver. Often one ported from MS-DOS.