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		Zardoz84 on Nov 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run the First Edition of Unix with Docker DosEmu can do it better but only on 32 bit GNU/Linux

drb91 on Nov 23, 2017 [–]

Gnu/linux x86_64 can’t run 32 bit executables?

kccqzy on Nov 23, 2017 | | [–]

Running 16-bit code on an x86-64 system is hard. There’s a reason Microsoft dropped 16-bit support in 64-bit windows.

fao_ on Nov 23, 2017 | | [–]

Yes it can. Multilib

EDIT: Misread the tone. Turns out we're agreeing :)

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