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trollbridge 8 hours ago

DPMI clients don’t run in a VM, though. They’re just a normal task like any other task / process in Windows.

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toast0 6 hours ago | parent [-]

So... Win32 runs in virtual mode. In 2025, we don't think of that as a Virtual Machine, but it totally is. Hardware access is trapped by the CPU and processed by the OS/DPMI server.

	▲	fredoralive 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, in 386 mode 3.x and 9x the System VM and other DPMI clients runs in protected mode. Virtual 8086 mode, as its name somewhat suggests, only runs real mode code.