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And what would be the difference to virtualize xp and use windows 7 instead of linux? And windows even tries to be compatible with old code. I can still run some dos era programs on 7. But of course I could understand your user case. It is just very specific and using 16 bit is limiting. Sometimes a company has to take this kind of steps. Adaptation from 32 to 64 was slow also, even if it limited the amount of usable ram. Or look at the mess that was the dos ram allocation, some of that problems were then in win 95 too, because of compatibility.
Unfortunately software and hardware are not for eternity. My advice would always be to save data in a format that is widely used, exportable and convertible. This way you could use your data with whatever program suits you at any given time.
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