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		TylerE on April 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: His software sang the words of God, then it went s... No, and it's much more thorny than you make it out to me. Windows Vista (I think... 7 for sure) and later cannot run 16bit exes at all. While the software itself was 32bit, many of the intallers of that era were Intallshield/InstallerWise that were still actually 16bit, so while if you could get the thing installed...you can't.

nradov on April 4, 2023 | [–]

Windows 7 included an "XP Mode" virtual machine which could run 16 bit applications.

iforgotpassword on April 4, 2023 | [–]

Wrong, it's the 64 bit versions that can't run 16 bit software. But even Windows 10 can run 3.11 apps if you use the 32 bit release.

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