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Comment by trollbridge

3 hours ago

DPMI clients don’t run in a VM, though. They’re just a normal task like any other task / process in Windows.

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toast0  1 hour ago

So... Win32 runs in virtual mode. In 2025, we don't think of that as a Virtual Machine, but it totally is. Hardware access is trapped by the CPU and processed by the OS/DPMI server.

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