Comment by anonymars

All of this is true, but this is not unprecedented: after all Windows 9x was able to run DOS, and that took no shortage of wizardry

Some interesting reading:

1. What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...)

2. Why doesn’t Windows 95 format floppy disks smoothly? (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090102-00/?p=19...)

3. Running MS-DOS programs in a window alongside other Windows programs (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231127-00/?p=10...)