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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/28/26 00:49, Jari Ruusu wrote: > There are still people using this who need that performance boost. > I am one of those weird ones who still occasionally run real mode > DOS programs under 32-bit x86 Linux + dosemu + FreeDOS. I'm really curious what software this is and what kind of performance boost you see. I'm also curious why modern virtualization hardware doesn't help either.