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Windows/386, and later 3.x and 9x, was a virtual machine monitor that could run 16-bit operating systems with 32-bit drivers. The desktop environment you saw w
by bonzini 2mo ago
Windows/386, and later 3.x and 9x, was a virtual machine monitor that could run 16-bit operating systems with 32-bit drivers.
The desktop environment you saw was nothing but the main virtual machine, and inside that was the green thread environment you describe. But the VMM on the outside was pretty solid.
- AdieuToLogic 2mo ago> Windows/386, and later 3.x and 9x, was a virtual machine monitor that could run 16-bit operating systems with 32-bit drivers. Those were not "DOS-based Windows". If your position is Windows/386 et al were OSs which supported running MS-DOS programs, I agree. But that is not "DOS-based" so much as "can run DOS programs."