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		kijiki on June 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objectiv... If your PC is faster than a certain speed Win95 won't boot. This bit us at VMware, since it was common to want to run old Win95-only software in a VM on fast machines. We ended up having the VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) patch up the bug when it did binary translation.

justin66 on June 6, 2016 [–]

> If your PC is faster than a certain speed Win95 won't boot.

That's interesting. What's the threshold there?

gattilorenz on June 6, 2016 | [–]

300Mhz. But you can work around that...

http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2011/01/10/windo...

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