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		geogra4 on Oct 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gar... I think really the use case is to run in a VM to handle old code and keep security up to date. I wouldn't want to run it on bare hardware for that reason (3)

jqpabc123 on Oct 26, 2020 | [–]

Old code? Do you need to run 16 bit code under Win64? There are solutions for this. Here are a couple:

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

https://www.dosbox.com/information.php?page=0

Koshkin on Oct 26, 2020 | | [–]

Well, security is a whole another kettle of fish. I'd be wondering how secure ReactOS is (or can ever be).

Frenchgeek on Oct 26, 2020 | [–]

At the very least ReactOS makes for a good test suite for Wine...

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