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anthktoday at 12:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does Windows NT have a Windows 9x API emulator?


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pjmlptoday at 12:50 PM

Windows NT predates Windows 95 for two years.

And yes it did had emulators for Windows 16, and DOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows

fredoralivetoday at 1:01 PM

If you squint a bit (well, a lot really), Win32S on 3.1 and Windows 95’s Win32 implementation are Windows NT emulators running on top of 16 bit Windows.