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[–] who@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.

I don't think it was a virtual machine in the hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).