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I guess that would be helpful if you wanted to run 16 bit software on 64 bit Windows.


There's NXVDM which is a port of the i860/Alpha/MIPS/PPC NTVDM compiled for AMD64. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxvdm/


Few use cases I can think of:

Testing across multiple .net frameworks without containers or virtual machines.

It's a lot faster to initiate an app inside wine on Linux then start up a VM and launch it on Windows. I think it's even faster than containers on Windows but don't have any data to back it up.

Lastly, for sandboxing applications (not a great security layer of course, but safer than running natively) so they don't pollute the registry or access sensitive files.

Wondering if it's possible to play dx12 games on older versions of Windows that don't officially support it.




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