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Windows 7 had that "XP Mode" feature where it would try to run things in a VM, but it was an unloved stepchild.

Really, they could have done a lot better-- a VM jukebox with everything from DOS 3.3 onwards available could have made the "most compatible Windows ever"-- even old software that assumed a 4.77MHz CPU clock could have been rigged to run natively.



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