What is the oldest Windows operating system to run on a modern (2007-2009) computer?
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As I'm soon wiping my computer clean to install Windows 7, I had an idea of trying out some older operating systems on new hardware to see how the user experience is (especially regarding boot time and speed) nowadays. Have you tried out older commodity OSs on modern hardware (few years old), such …
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I have Windows 98 in a VirtualPC on my home machine. I use occasionally it to run a Windows 3.1 era copy of MathCAD which just isn't happy running under XP, and to play a couple of ca. 1995 games that really want an early version of DirectX and can'…
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