A developer has created 'Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux' (wsl9x), a hack that runs a modern Linux kernel cooperatively alongside the Windows 9x kernel in ring 0, with no hardware virtualisation required. This means it can run on hardware as old as a 486. The project draws comparisons to coLinux and took 6 years of conceptual work after the author's earlier doslinux project. The implementation uses VMM services like VMMCreateThread and memory context APIs, and the community response has been enthusiastic.
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