Comment by jojobas
19 days ago
Win95 is only 30 years old and runs natively on some modern hardware.
Apparently there is important stuff still running in emulated PDP-11s, almost double the age.
19 days ago
Win95 is only 30 years old and runs natively on some modern hardware.
Apparently there is important stuff still running in emulated PDP-11s, almost double the age.
It needs quite a few fixes to even run in a VM. But it can be done: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x
This post doesn't go to to great detail, but seems to run natively:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/1n1no1k/august_202...
It might be possible to use the rest of that RAM above the 4GB barrier as a ridiculously fast RAM disk, with an XMS driver like this one:
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HimemSX
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Yes certain software for Canadian made nuclear power plants, comes to mind. Was a post on the VCF forums about a job listing that required PDP-11 knowledge.