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Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
[...]

> One of the major selling points of Windows '95, in theory, was
> full backward compatibility.  Of course, that's marketroidese,
> but if you can't believe MS about what MS had in mind, who can
> say _what_ they had in mind (other than $$$)?  I don't honestly
> believe a better DOS emulator will be produced.

Definitely take a look at FreeDOS.
    http://www.freedos.org/
    http://freedos.sourceforge.net/compat.html (known compatibility list)
They're not there, yet, but they're doing a darn good job, from what I can
see...


