• Virtual DOS machines (VDM) refer to a technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs when there is already another operating...
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    In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and...
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  • Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often...
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    legacy MS-DOS and Win16 apps that Windows 9x was, but does provide limited DOS emulation called NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) to run DOS applications...
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  • are not based on MS-DOS, but use a virtual machine, NTVDM, to handle the DOS API. NTVDM works by running a DOS program in virtual 8086 mode (an emulation...
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  • Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet...
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  • support for DOS. 1991 IBM introduces OS/2 Virtual DOS machine (VDM) with support for x86 virtual 8086 mode, capable of virtualizing DOS/Windows and other...
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    the system virtual DOS machine and so keyboard input to a Win32 console application had to be directed to it by conagent.exe running in a DOS VM that are...
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    DOSBox (redirect from DOS Box)
    running DOS programs that are not supported natively by the Wine Virtual DOS machine. Since January 2015, the Internet Archive has added thousands of DOS games...
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    OS/2 (redirect from DOS 5 (OS/2))
    History of the graphical user interface Multiple Virtual DOS Machine (MVDM) – OS/2 virtual DOS machine and seamless Windows integration OpenDoc – Software...
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    environment since 1985 Virtual DOS machine "icl37". www.vintage-icl-computers.com. Retrieved October 7, 2023. "Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0". April 25, 2024...
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  • NT-based operating systems can execute them using their built-in Virtual DOS machine (although some graphics modes are unsupported). 64-bit versions of...
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  • to page MS-DOS applications to disk. Without it, if the real mode disk code (the Int 13h handler) was paged out, the virtual DOS machine would loop forever...
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    of DOS that IBM and Microsoft shared the full code for, and the DOS that was integrated into OS/2 2.0's, and later Windows NT's, virtual DOS machine. PC DOS...
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    DOS (successor of Concurrent DOS in the multi-user products line), which would run DOS applications in pre-emptively multitasked virtual DOS machines...
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    multitasking DOS clone VM/386 – unrelated multitasking DOS environment Virtual DOS machine Multiuser DOS Federation Timeline of operating systems List of mergers...
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  • as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer, is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer...
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    DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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  • Windows 95, 98, 98 SE and ME through virtual DOS machines, in SCO UNIX through Merge, and in Linux through DOSEMU. (Other DOS programs which use protected mode...
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  • like Windows 3.1 to run. On x86 computers, the virtual DOS machine uses the virtual 8086 mode to run DOS applications directly, on RISC computers, an emulator...
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  • Bytecode (category Virtualization)
    to traditional hardware instructions: virtual stack machines are the most common, but virtual register machines have been built also. Different parts...
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  • driven maintenance, industrial maintenance management methodology. Virtual DOS machine Vulnerability Discovery Model, used to estimate future vulnerability...
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  • 9x can run MS-DOS applications within itself using a method called "Virtualization", where an application is run on a Virtual DOS machine. Windows 95 and...
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  • PC does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems older than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests. Virtual PC was discontinued in 2011 in favour...
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  • Merge (software) (redirect from DOS Merge)
    which allows a user to run DOS/Windows 3.1 on SCO UNIX, in an 8086 virtual machine. Merge was originally developed to run DOS under UNIX System V Release...
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  • The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled...
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    VMware Workstation (category Virtualization software)
    to set up virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously along with the host machine. Each virtual machine can execute...
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    DOSEMU (redirect from Dos-emu)
    open-source software portal Comparison of platform virtualization software Virtual DOS machine DOSBox Wine FreeDOS "DOSEMU for Linux / History / Browse Commits"...
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  • Control Interface MS-DOS 7 Next-Generation Secure Computing Base POSIX subsystem ScanDisk Video for Windows Virtual DOS machine Windows on Windows Windows...
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    16-bit Windows (Win16) and DOS applications will not run on x86-64 versions of Windows due to the removal of the virtual DOS machine subsystem (NTVDM) which...
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