Unauthorized Windows/386 (virtuallyfun.com)

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Will Klees (CaptainWillStarblazer)

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This is pretty technical, but still interesting deep look into one of Microsoft’s early 32bit/386 based programs that would go on to revolutionize the world, Windows/386! It brought the v86 virtual machine to normal people wrapped up in a nice G

Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183008

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/computers/operating-systems/windows-386/unauthorized/virtuallyfun.com.md

random

The main temple to Enki was called E-abzu, meaning “abzu temple” (also E-en-gur-a, meaning “house of the subterranean waters”), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.

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website

https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/09/06/unauthorized-windows-386/