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Subject: Re: please make djgpp host binaries work on x64 (a type of WinPE)
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> If you absolutely "need" 64-bit or SMP or whatever, just use Linux for
> that and only use DOSEMU2 for "legacy" stuff. You can indeed use both,
> but you cannot magically make DOS "modern" just by nagging a few
> lonely developers. Sorry, but even they aren't smart enough to do
> literally everything.

linux is a fairly static and broken OS "for developers". it cannot be resized with gparted (its own partitioning utility) once installed. as a developer, I only use it to fix windows. I cannot install it on my windows lest it break my windows install (and I don't have room).

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